Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point is reached. In the face of this looming diplomatic and strategic disaster, the U.S. and British policy of hands off in Iraq seems at first glance negligent. In fact, it is the only policy open to the West. For even if Washington and London trusted Nasser enough to back him in his fight against Kassem, Western support would only further discredit Nasser in Iraqi eyes-and in the eyes of the whole Arab world. And any attempt that the West might make to bring direct pressure to bear on Kassem could only serve to drive him finally and utterly...
...Bourbon monarchy once he himself disappears from the scene, and virtually all Spaniards, save the Communists, pay lip service to this plan. Yet in Spain's cafés, Franco's followers and foes whisper of the day after his death in another vein. Fearfully, they predict: "Back to the streets with pistols...
...that has swept over the Americas has stirred widespread grumbling in Paraguay. Heightening the discontent is the fact that political prisoners jampack police headquarters and overflow into two concentration camps. Torture has been common. Youth Leader Rodolfo Serafini, emerging from 67 days' imprisonment, showed newsmen welts crisscrossing his back...
After taking Holy Week off, Captain Herman Marks, 37, an ex-convict from Milwaukee who fought with Fidel Castro's rebels, got back on the job one night last week. Consulting his written orders, he marched with an armed guard to the death row of Havana's gloomy Cabana Fortress, brought out three former policemen, all convicted in military courts on charges of murder. A short ride in a bus and a jeep brought Marks, the guards, a priest and the prisoners to within 200 feet of an old moat, 20 feet deep and surrounded on three sides...
...this strenuous action did not get enough trains back on the run. So many key trainmen stayed out that service was reduced by as much as a half and trains ran hours behind schedule. Rotting cargo piled up at freight sidings through the country, and a food shortage threatened Mexico City...