Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks they had haggled over 700 acres of land near Alexandria owned by Joseph Smouha, 83-year-old Iraqi-born Jew known as the wealthiest British subject in Egypt (TIME. March 2). Solution of the Smouhaha. as the British called it: the Egyptians would give him back the race track, golf course and other built-up property that they had seized from him after the British landings. But they would keep the surrounding farm land which, for tax purposes, he had valued unusually low. It would be up to the British to compensate...
...eyes of all Africa were on Nyasaland last week, but Kenya had its own special reason for feeling the tension. Back in the news was the dreaded name of Jomo Kenyatta, "Burning Spear," the idol of the Mau Mau-and the man who put him there was the very same witness who helped put him in prison back...
...should be tied with sinews taken from their own ribs, and that "who assists the whites he must be castrated. We must take out his eyes and then hold him for seven days and then we will cut his head off and see if the whites can bring him back to life...
...months, warning of a coming coal crisis, the High Authority urged member nations to cut back production. The Belgians largely ignored pleas to modernize their mines, close marginal producers. Germany's Ludwig Erhard resisted any imposition of production quotas. He preferred to slap domestic tariffs on imports from outside the area (including $4.76 a ton on U.S. coal) and higher taxes on other fuels to boost coal sales. Italy and Luxembourg want to continue buying cheaper U.S. coal, even if this is considered disloyal to surplus-ridden Community producers. The French hinted that they might not obey orders...
...Boss Aidit slowly journeyed home from Moscow, with stops at the Soviet Asian city of Tashkent, where his wife is studying medicine, and at Peking in Red China, he got word that President Sukarno had decided to go back to the old constitution of 1945, to include 35 army officers in his government, and to exclude the Reds from the Cabinet and from major governmental posts...