Word: requestion
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wives and widows of the men of the RB-47 have abided by the department's request to keep quiet and wait. But waiting is difficult for young wives, and they can find small comfort in the driblets of letters that manage to seep through the Communist censorship. Among the personal messages the prisoners were permitted to write to their families, a few notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from...
Previously, the Defense Secretary often did not hear of J.C.S. disagreements until "split papers'' landed on his desk with conflicts for him to resolve. One of Gates's first acts as Secretary was to request that he "be promptly informed regarding any issue on which a difference of opinion is developing" within J.C.S. From then on, he made it a practice to meet with the chiefs at least once a week to work out problems as they emerged...
Where it can, Mexico also gives Castro's Cubans as little rope as possible. The Mexican government keeps a watchful eye on Castro's diplomats, grants very few visas to Cubans, either pro-or anti-Castro. Pemex, the state oil monopoly, turned down a Cuban request for technicians to help operate the refineries that Castro had seized from U.S. companies...
With that request of Winston Spencer Churchill, taken from a wartime speech. ABC this week began a television series worthy of its subject and his words. Called Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, its 26 half-hour segments will draw material from all six volumes of Church ill's World War II memoirs, using film clips made on both sides of battle to provide-if all episodes prove as excellent as the first-a graphic and unforgettable text in modern history...
...sides worked out a tentative agreement: the Government would accept nolo pleas in 13 of the cases, but would expect defendants in the other seven cases to plead guilty. Judge Ganey has indicated that, in ruling on the pleas, he intends to go along with the Government's request...