Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Real or fictitious, plots are a standard part of every dramatic turn in the Middle East's crises, rousing mass anger or diverting the attention of the streets. Last week plots were busting out all over. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba charged that Cairo had plotted to have him assassinated. In Egypt, Nasser's intelligence officers charged that five conspirators 'had accepted British and Saudi money in a plot to assassinate Nasser last year. The Nasser-Serraj bombshell successfully diverted Syrians' attention from Nasser's announcement of the new republic's Cabinet-which gives...
...deep change, the Roman Catholic Church has played a foresighted and honorable role; it sensed popular anger at dictators in Argentina. Colombia and Venezuela, and stood quietly but firmly against them. Last week the church in Cuba shifted adroitly into opposition to Strongman Fulgencio Batista by calling for a "national-unity government" to replace his. By contrast, the U.S. State Department has sometimes had an unhappy knack of appearing to back the dictators. Former Inter-American Affairs Chief Henry Holland publicly hailed Peron as a "great Argentine." Secretary of State Dulles took time during one of his two visits...
...Remada in southern Tunisia the French army gave yet another demonstration of its irresponsibility. Angered at the destruction of a French jeep and the wounding of two Frenchmen by a land mine planted on Remada Airstrip, the local French commander promptly seized the senior Tunisian official in the area, held him incommunicado for twelve hours. This high-handed treatment of a government official in his own country provoked a new wave of Tunisian anger...
...Squeeze. Few guns are likely to be fired in anger between the supporters of Indonesia's rival governments. The armies are small ones-measurable in battalions rather than divisions-and there is no easy way for them to get at each other, since neither side has enough warships or transports to mount an invasion. The rebels have no aircraft at all; the central government has only a few, with perhaps several hundred paratroopers. Java has more population (54 million, v. Sumatra's 12 million). But Java must import even its food, is already in serious economic difficulties. Sumatra...
...first Olivier was infuriated by Playwright Osborne's vitriolic Look Back in Anger (now in its fifth month on Broadway). But, says he, "the second time I saw it the scales descended from my eyes.'' Sir Laurence asked Osborne to write The Entertainer for him. bowed out of a starring role in Hollywood's film version of Separate Tables. In a tiny London theater he opened in Osborne's play at a salary of $126 a week. "I still disapprove of Osborne's social doctrines." says Olivier. "But I consider him a highly talented...