Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tripoli, where their leaders tapped their telephone wires into neighbors' lines and regularly negotiated cease-fires with government forces by telephone. In Tripoli, most Moslem of Lebanese cities, after the week's roughest scrap (eight dead), the rebels as usual phoned a hospital in the government area to ask for an ambulance to fetch the wounded...
...Cabinet minister, formed his own socialist party in 1949, later backed the movement that installed Chamoun in office. A somewhat intellectual and moody mountaineer who studied in Paris and took to visiting an Indian ashram after his first parting with Chamoun, he now controls the south central area of Lebanon for the opposition. Chamoun's ultimate insult, he claims, was to deny him his ancestral parliamentary seat in last year's elections. As leader of a heretical Moslem sect, he is no friend to Islamic pan-Arabism, insists: "This situation has nothing to do with Nasser...
Composer Stockhausen thinks that electronic music has scarcely begun to explore its potentialities. Says he earnestly: "I want to be able to bring sounds from every surface area of the room. Why not loudspeakers on swings overhead or a completely globular room with loudspeakers blanketing the walls and the listeners on a platform suspending in the center...
...intricate new plan to give limited self-government to Cyprus (TIME, June 23). Tribulation was what he expected. After the previous week's bloodshed between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, the British had rushed additional troops to Cyprus, boosting the security force to 37,000 men for an area smaller than Los Angeles County. They postponed the scheduled public announcement of the plan for 48 hours to give the NATO Council a chance to calm the growing bitterness between NATO Partners Greece and Turkey. In a concentrated diplomatic effort, all the other 13 NATO powers...
...Southern Rhodesian government is as excited as the lucky prospectors. It has closed off an area of 500 sq. mi. surrounding the discovery. The Belingwe site itself is hedged in by three barbed-wire fences, one around the other, guarded by 18 policemen and two watchdogs and illuminated at night by two searchlights. A concrete blockhouse combining a processing plant and storage vaults will soon be built. The diggings themselves consist of a hole scarcely 2 ft. deep, and 3 ft. by 12 ft. wide. The work is done entirely by hand, since emeralds-unlike diamonds, which...