Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency until the Czechoslovak National Assembly can meet to elect a successor to Novotny. The party Presidium made plans to restore the reputations of as many as 30,000 people disgraced in Novotny's purges. This week the Central Committee is due to get Dubcek's reform program, which is likely to remove some controls on the economy and give the people a greater voice in their affairs. While the other top Communists in the Soviet bloc are clearly worried about the program's impact in their countries, Dubcek must deliver something to his own people...
...running the risk of losing control of his tightly centralized government. Even so, Nasser, who last week went with other officials to pray in a Cairo mosque, promised that he would appear on television within a week or so to explain the next stage in his self-improvement program for Egypt...
...effect, a hard-hitting post-Tet State of the Union message, prom ising many of the sweeping reforms that the U.S. has been urging over the past two months. The program, beamed to 170,000 TV sets within viewing range of 76% of the country's population, would, if carried out, go far toward solv ing the worst of South Viet Narn's problems. Among President Thieu's major concerns...
...CORRUPTION. "It hinders every im provement in society and the progress of the nation," said Thieu. "Its eradica tion is a very difficult task that re quires much courage, many efforts and patience, but I am determined to push vigorously the anticorruption program." Punishments, he said, would range from disciplinary measures all the way to imprisonment or even death...
...exploit the ironic fact that mere aging is now the main cause of going straight. Since youths are the most defiant prisoners, they should be scattered among older, wiser men, not segregated as now. In a community setting, prisons can expand work-and-study furloughs, arrange part-time release programs with industry, universities and therapy groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous. At the federal penitentiary in Danbury, Conn., for example, Dictograph Products Inc. sponsors a training program for microsoldering hearing aids, hires the trained convicts after their release. Geared to problem solving, such treatment reconciles offenders with relatives, schools, employers...