Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the flight to Peking-a journey that to gleeful Asians seemed to be Khrushchev's dutiful response to a hurry-up call from Mao. For four days, behind the ancient red walls of Peking's Imperial City, the two arbiters of the Communist world negotiated. When they emerged to shake hands for the photographers, the Peking line had become the Moscow line as well...
...that point, Mao was talking big about "letting one hundred flowers bloom" -until the blooming flowers of self-criticism set off such disorder in his own garden that he had to call the whole thing off. From then on, Peking worked against Gomulka and Tito by attacking Yugoslav "revisionism" even more savagely than did the Russians themselves. But the Mao-is-tops theorists stuck to their theory, while reversing their field: now it was not Mao the liberal they cheered, but Mao the hard they feared...
...leader of the Greek Cypriot EOKA. Next day the British government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice." Cyprus, which has seen 127 killed in gangland-type slayings in less than two months, breathed a sigh of relief...
...rest pagan animists. The Negroes alone speak 120 different languages. Just outside the teeming modern city of Abidjan, villagers still slaughter small children and toss their disemboweled bodies into the river to make sure of a good year's fishing. Until this year, Mauritania, whose Berber people call themselves "whites" (Bidanes), felt itself too poor to have a capital of its own: it shared Saint-Louis, which was the capital of black Senegal. In Dahomey, which means "The Belly of Dan," after an ancient king who ate his victims, the fiercest warriors were once the Amazons. And among...
Huge Debts. The President's other big problem is an economy dragged downward by the Rojas regime's extravagance and the estimated $70 million sag in coffee income this year. The junta made a start by imposing what Colombian businessmen call "organized recession," including severe import restrictions on everything from toothpaste to typewriters. The cost of living is still climbing at a rate of 20% a year, and Lleras warns that if coffee prices are not stabilized, "this country may explode...