Word: programing
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...chewed up during their disastrous siege of the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh (see box). The Tet onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with more confidence than it had had before. The pacification program in the countryside turns out not to have been hit so hard as at first suspected: out of the 629 pre-Tet Revolutionary Development teams, 545 are back in the field, 449 of those in their planned 1968 locations. Tet also brought home to the South Vietnamese the deadly earnestness of the war. That...
Communist Czechoslovakia's new leaders published detailed blueprints last week for their own "road to Socialism." Debated for weeks in camera, the action program drawn up by new Party Boss Alexander Dubček stressed the country's development through a combination of "broad democracy with a scientific and highly qualified management." It stopped short of the outright democratization that many Czechoslovaks are clamoring for, and made abundantly clear the Communist Party's unwillingness to permit challenges as yet to its dominant political role. Nonetheless, the remarkable document officially retired many bits of Marxist dogma and dealt...
...Monopoly Position," Dubček's program downgrades the dread State Security Service, or secret police, by depriving it of its ordinary police powers and confining its activities to counterespionage. The program asks for the rewriting of legal codes to assure "better and more consistent" protection of such rights as freedom of assembly and speech, envisions the proliferation of "specialinterest associations" and a strengthened role for non-Communist political parties. It also exhorts the Communist Party not to interfere in the work of the courts and judges...
...uncertain terms, Dubček's program plots a return to the economic reforms designed by Economist Ota Šik, who has been nominated for one of five Deputy Premier posts in the new government. Slowed down under the regime of ex-Party Boss Antonín Novotný, the reforms place faith in market determination of prices, competition among enterprises, more incentives for workers and less bureaucratic control. The program proclaims that inefficient workers and factories will not be rewarded and that the consumer must be protected against high prices and inferior goods caused by "the monopoly position...
...first wireless, fully portable phone. "It's there when I need it," explains Elkins, who believes that it will come in particularly handy when he is driving rented cars or is on location for movies. "The phone is a serious business weapon for me," adds TV Program Packager Larry Spangler, who carries his briefcase phone everywhere, was glad that he did so recently when he received a long-distance call on an outdoor paddle-tennis court confirming an urgent appointment...