Word: ceded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of last year's independence declaration, when he was trying to make a reputation as a special friend of the Arabs, Franco secretly agreed to cede Southern Morocco to the Moroccans some time in the future. He has since changed his mind. Reason: prospectors have found indications that the sandy wastes of Spanish Sahara, like the French Sahara farther east, may hold oil, a resource to be found nowhere else in Spanish territory. At week's end. Franco rushed 3,500 more troops into Ifni and had beefed up his Spanish West Africa garrison...
...that oil has been found in the Negeb, we will never leave," said one Israeli. At any rate, the Negeb's boon was not going to make any easier U.S. Secretary of State Dulles' effort to persuade Israel to cede some of the desert to the Arabs in return for a peace treaty...
...been through the years; last year alone the feud took 40 lives. Recently, however, Mexico State Governor Salvador Sánches Colin proposed a solution: the state will pay San Simón 50,000 pesos for the 350 acres and cede the land to El Guarda. With a sigh, the elders of both villages agreed...
...Ministries of Home and Education distributed a new Rhee ukase demanding that "married monks should repent their past and become laymen." The badly frightened family men, who claim that Buddhist priests have been marrying for 300 years, met with representatives of the protesting faction of celibates and offered to cede them the top temple priesthoods and move their families out of the priestly residences and into village quarters. At week's end the unmarried 700 were still insisting on out-and-out expulsion...
...concentrate on progress, not recriminations. We decided that arrangements were possible whereby episodes such as this one could be avoided in the future. About 10:30 this evening I contacted Michael H. Jorrin '55, Film Chairman of the HLU, and we agreed to the following joint statement to super- cede earlier statements that might have been made during the day. Earlier statements, though made, do not represent our present feelings...