Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their royal palace at Pnompenh one evening last week, Cambodia's King Norodom Suramarit and Queen Kossamak paused for a moment before leaving their private apartment behind the throne room. The acting protocol chief of the royal household, Prince Norodom Vakrivan, had just brought in a package newly arrived from Hong Kong. The accompanying card said that it contained a "gift for the King and queen" from a U.S. engineering company that had helped build the 134-mile Cambodian-American Friendship Highway running from Pnompenh to the seaport of Sihanoukville...
...stationed in Turkey charged that they had been tortured by Turkish cops who accused them of black marketing in currency, the ensuing uproar set official swivel chairs spinning in three capitals. The sergeants' charges, and their detention along with two other U.S. noncoms also charged with black marketing, brought U.S. Ambassador Fletcher Warren hustling back to the U.S. from Turkey for hush-hush consultations with the State Department (TIME. Aug. 24). From Paris, NATO's General Lauris Norstad dispatched a team of crack investigators headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, sometime FBI man. to find out just what...
Last week, at the trial of the sergeants in Izmir's humid, jampacked courthouse, there was little public evidence that all this display of official activity had yet brought anyone much closer to the truth...
Defense Attorney Sahap Gursel eloquently pleaded for dismissal of the case. His grounds: the nature of the arrests violated the NATO status-of-forces agreement, which specifies that offenders shall be confronted with accusing witnesses. have the right to get in touch with their consular officials, and be brought to speedy trial...
...Nasser's Cairo broadcasters. Almost at once Haji Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland, because he feared his Hawiya tribe would be swamped in a state that brought 3,000,000 Somalis together. On the eve of showdown elections last spring, Haji Mohammed was refused permission to lead a parade of his partisans in Mogadiscio. "The blood is on the government's head if blood is spilled," he cried. Next day Haji Mohammed was arrested...