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Apparently, authorities in Seoul still do not know the answer to that question. On the one hand, students have long been expected to be in the forefront of the country's nationalistic struggle and revolutionary Western change. That is one reason they tend to be earnestly pro-American and devoted to U.S. political ideals. On the other hand, that quest for freedom, as the spreading protests of the past two weeks have demonstrated, can pose a threat to the country's stability. In the conflict being re-enacted today, says former U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Richard Sneider, "both...
...weld together an Indochinese federation with a docile Cambodia and Laos under the leadership of Hanoi. Others believe that Viet Nam is simply Moscow's stand-in in the Southeast Asian geopolitical rivalry with Peking. But a more likely explanation is that the men who govern Viet Nam know of no other way except the exercise of military might to secure their country's safety. Says Colonel Tran Cong Man, editor in chief of Hanoi's army newspaper: "For 30 years people had one job-that was fighting...
Corporations, however, have a host of signs to separate the wheat from the chaff among those climbing the corporate ladder. Bank of America employees, for example, know that they have made it when they are given stationery with the bank's logo in gold rather than black ink. One of the most elaborate status classifications is at Ford, where employees are graded on a scale of 1 (clerks and secretaries) to 27 (chairman of the board). Grade 9, the lowest level of executive, carries the right to an outside parking place, while Grade 13 brings a larger office, windows...
Confronted by this criticism, Biogenics' scientific director, Dante Picciano, refused to cooperate with EPA in an independent review. He also challenged the assertion that the study was biased toward those already ill: "We did not know who was sick and who wasn't. The people were selected primarily on the basis of where they lived...
...that the owners left the bargaining table with a narrow victory on this point, while losing gracefully on pensions and salaries. Admitted Phil Garner, second baseman and player representative for the Pittsburgh Pirates: "We had to give up a great deal to get a settlement. We don't know if it's going to be worth it in the long haul...