Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speedy evacuation of foreign forces." A Christian elected with Moslem support, Chehab pledged himself to uphold "the unwritten constitution." This was the 1943 compact in which Lebanon's Christian and Moslem communities agreed that Moslems would refrain from urging merger with other Arab states, Christians would hold back from aligning the country too closely with any Western power...
Nana Ofori Atta II, the paramount chief of Akim Abuakwa. The second most powerful tribal leader in Ghana, Ofori Atta had been declared de-stooled by some of his restive subchiefs. Like many a chieftain before him, he had fallen back on his feudal prerogative and refused to budge. But Nkrumah seized the occasion, moved quickly to back up the subchiefs' decision. The technical charge was that Ofori Atta had refused to leave his palace...
With General Ne Win (whose name means "General Bright Sun") as a caretaker Premier, the army forces would have a free hand to root out the Communist rebels from the jungle and roll back Communist undercover infiltration into political life in time to permit orderly settlement of Burma's parliamentary deadlock at the polls next spring. Some, noting that the switch deprived Nu of control over electoral machinery, held that Nu is now on his way out as a political leader. "If the initiative for turning over the government really did come from Nu, he must be rated...
...find that his two pigs had wandered off and were locked up in the pound. He had no money to redeem them. That night as he slept, Black Kali came to him in a dream and told him what he must do to get his pigs back. The next...
Summoned by the shocked temple priest, the police found Hari Singh sitting quietly under a sapling in the temple courtyard, waiting for Kali to bring Bi-Kram's little body back to life...