Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Face of the Land. Outwardly, last week, Iran was calm. In Teheran, on a sunny afternoon, the Shah and his young bride drove to the races in their new sea-blue Rolls-Royce. Across the city, the spring cycle of parties was in full swing...
Pressure from Washington. U.S. policy is to calm everyone down, "wait for the air to clear," and later get the British and Iranians together around a conference table. Washington and London still hope that the British can keep part control of Iranian oil by running the huge Abadan refinery as well as the distribution machinery, i.e., 1,718 miles of British-built pipeline and 147 British-owned tankers. The crucial issue: Mossadeq wants British technical assistance to run the fields, without strings attached; the British are willing to offer technical assistance, but only in exchange for certain concessions e.g. continued...
Rhee moved swiftly to calm the storm. He signed a law, already passed by the Assembly, abolishing the corps, ordered the arrest of the corps commander, a hulking ex-wrestler named Kim Yong Keun. The Assembly was not pacified. It refused to elect a Rhee man as Lee's successor, instead chose Kim Sung Soo, 60, wealthy head of the anti-Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party and respected member of Seoul's Rotary Club...
...first day of the new regime was calm. But during the night, bonfires burned in the hills near the capital, ominously spelling out in the darkness the initials M.N.R. The following night, partisans attacked a police station; one policeman was killed, three wounded. That, paceños feared, was only the beginning...
Thanks or your letters, welcome here in what used to be called "the land of the morning calm." I'm writing from a sweltering tent at Corps headquarters on what is known as the "west central quarters on what is known as the "west central front." There used to be a central front, an eastern front, and western front. New there is a western front, a west central front, an east central front, and an eastern front. Miraculously, we have abolished the just plain "central front" and the war goes gruesomely...