Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...allies still trying to "win the hearts and minds of the people" in South Viet Nam? Not any more, at least in those terms. According to a new directive entitled "Let's Say It Right," the allied effort is intended to "develop community spirit." Prepared by the U.S. Command in Viet Nam for military press officers, the directive bans or substantially alters 22 terms that once were used frequently in briefings for correspondents in Saigon. Instead of "search and destroy," U.S. briefing officers should now say "search and clear." U.S. troop withdrawals are to be described as "U.S. redeployment...
...disaster, say others. Her choice of clothes for Mrs. Nixon is a deterrent to the new spirit in American fashion, avoiding as it does anything new or exciting, ignoring designers with real flair like Bill Blass and Donald Brooks, though room has been found for Geoffrey Beene. "She is like a mother-in-law who never makes trouble," says Chester Weinberg, another of the ignored. "She couldn't think young if she tried. Mrs. Nixon seems to feel she'd rather be dull than right, and she surrounds herself with women of yesterday." Mollie Parnis concurs more heatedly...
I.O.S. has periodically tangled with other suspicious governments, which sometimes accuse its operatives of bending the spirit if not the letter of the law. I.O.S. salesmen have been temporarily jailed in Brazil, India and Pakistan on suspicion of helping residents to avoid laws against sending money abroad. Last week Greek police were investigating I.O.S. on similar grounds...
...decision has paid off. The fedayeen have recruited some young Israeli Arabs, and there have been numerous acts of sabotage. But the government has arrested 200 suspected of terrorism or aiding terrorists and believes the threat has been contained. Though many of Israel's Arabs applaud the fedayeen spirit, they fear that terrorist tactics will bring back the old controls. "Our situation is that of a lamb between two wolves-the Israeli military and the Arab guerrillas," says Abdul Aziz Zuabi, an Arab member of Israel's Knesset (parliament...