Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would become a "rural slum"; self-governing Southern Rhodesia, isolated, would become a satellite of South Africa, and Africa might be split between African and white at the Zambezi River, with ominous consequences. Was it too late to arrest the trend? In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet, without seeking Welensky's advice-and, as it turned out, against his wishes-began making counter plans. It put British troops in Kenya on a six-hour alert, flew in transport planes from Cyprus and Singapore. If an emergency had to be policed in Nyasaland, reasoned London, better outside...
Prodded by desperate Belgium, the High Authority last week proposed to the Community's Council of Ministers that "a state of manifest crisis" be declared, permitting imposition of mandatory quotas. But in the Council of Ministers, composed of cabinet ministers of all six nations, supranationalism meets nationalism. Despite Belgium's crisis, the ministers seemed in no hurry to act against their own national pressures...
...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...
...copies of TIME arrived by air, they were taken by special order straight to the palace of President Hernán Siles Zuazo, whose ambassador in Peru, getting the magazine a day earlier, had alerted him. Siles made the story the topic of a six-hour Cabinet session, then issued a statement blasting the remark as "damaging to the national honor" and "absolutely inadmissable." The statement gave the Bolivian public to understand that the remark had been put forth as a serious proposal...
...citizens and embassy personnel waited behind police guards in a La Paz suburb to learn whether they were to be evacuated in Panagra planes standing by on Peruvian airfields. Siles called for another demonstration. Flanked by La Paz's archbishop, the armed forces chief and his Cabinet, he stood on a palace balcony before a throng of 25,000 which included a brass band. Again he called for calm, and again he was disobeyed. Led by Trotskyite Boss Victor Villegas, 200 men stormed police guarding the embassy. The police fired tear-gas shells, then pistols. A dentist was killed...