Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baghdad pact, appointed Egypt's War Minister, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, as supreme commander of their three armies. Red-faced London officials admitted that Egypt had just acquired 190 British tanks, Valentines of World War II vintage, bought as scrap and reconditioned, then resold by Belgian dealers. Israel was in no condition to protest, it seemed, having just come by a quantity of surplus British tanks in like manner...
...British, some 700 mutineers gave themselves up, but a campaign of counterterror launched by the northern Sudanese put the rest to flight. Some Negro rebels cast off their uniforms and returned to tribal life; others went on pillaging villages. Thousands of tribesmen fled with their families to the Belgian Congo and Uganda. District commissioners tried captured rebels in drumhead courts, ordered 168 executed by firing squads...
ATOMIC POWER PLANT, Europe's first completely privately financed nuclear generator, will be built in Belgium by Westinghouse Electric. A syndicate of 20 Belgian firms has signed a $5,000,000 contract with Westinghouse for an 11,500-kw. plant to supply electricity for the Brussels World's Fair...
...March 1954 the police raided a Belgian convent school and found Betty, by now a highly "nervous" girl. They missed Anneke by minutes. But they had enough evidence to make arrests, and a new wave of bitterness swept The Netherlands. Last year Geertruida Van Moorst was sentenced to a year in jail (six months of it suspended) for helping hide the abducted Betty. Last month Geertruida and her sister Elizabeth (in absentia) and four others were brought to trial in Amsterdam for kidnaping...
Meanwhile, the Assistant Curator of Mammals and Birds of the Bronx Zoo reported that the two young male hippopotamuses there have shown no evidence of fear, frustration, or domination by females--as the Belgian zoologist contends. "Of course the environment may make a difference," Miss Grace Duvall added...