Word: bers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abolishing the separate electoral rolls for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, which effectively barred the Turkish community from the seats it had held in the House of Representatives. Turk ish Cypriot Representatives, who have not been attending meetings for fear of their lives, tried to re-enter the cham ber but were refused admittance unless they would agree to relinquish the veto that they hold over legislation under the constitution. When Turkey angrily placed the matter before the U.N., Ankara's NATO partners reaffirmed their desire for peace on the island, but failed to step in energetically on Turkey...
Conservative M.P.s did not gloat over Labor's abrupt and embarrassing turnabout. Colored residents in Britain num ber less than 1% of the population, and it is apparently the intent of both parties to keep it that way. In noting the absence of debate on the White Paper, the Times argued that many M.P.s "may feel privately that public feeling on racial questions has now reached the point at which it might be a preponderant, if not decisive, issue at the next election." To hold on to political power, Labor seems to have concluded that its hot words...
...Name tags are a big help," one mem- ber of '40 said at a Winthrop House luncheon. "I've come back, of course, to see all my old friends." One alumnus had come to the Reunion from Hawaii, another from East Africa--both attracted by the "aura of the 25th." Others said they wanted to express their affection for their old friend and classmate, John F. Kennedy, who lived in Winthrop House...
...losing no opportunity to do so. At a state convention in Solingen last week, he appealed for a "purified patriotism" and demanded reinstatement of the first two verses of the German anthem (including the famous "Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles . . ."), which were originally banned by the Allies, and were left out of the national hymn after the occupation. He has also emphasized that his party opposed reparations and aid for Israel, as well as extending the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes. Though an opponent of former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, Mende, like Strauss, justifies his opposition...
...Opposition Leader Menahem Beigin cried: "Before you decide on relations with Germany, remember that the millions of Germans who were the Nazis' Hitler Jugend, members of the Gestapo and the SS, will be represented by a German ambassador in Israel with a German flag and with Deutschland über Alles." When Deputy Premier Abba Eban suggested that the hymn could be played in Israel without offense since it was written by a German liberal,* he was hooted down...