Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's civil war, Moghabghab, a Christian (Greek Catholic), sided with Christian (Maronite) President Camille Chamoun. In the mountainous Chouf area near his home, he led a private army of his own against the forces of Kamal Jumblatt, chieftain of the Druses, craggy mountaineers who practice the secret rites of an Islamic heresy. When Jumblatt's army overran his village, Moghabghab burned his own home to the ground rather than let it fall to the enemy...
With a year-long grant of dictatorial powers over the economy (TIME. March 23), Alessandri has also cut back 5% of the overstaffed civil service, paid $96 million long owed to private contractors by the government, and clamped down on tax evaders. The one place where his regime has fallen short is in the battle against inflation. In the new President's first six months, living costs jumped 22.2%. largest increase since 1955. Alessandri argues that the rise was premeditated; before launching his austerity program, he raised wages an average 32.5%, because "it was a social and political impossibility...
...favorite argument for dictators is that they impose order and thus smooth the way for improvements, but in 20 years of Francisco Franco, the Spanish economy has seen precious little improvement. Partly to blame were the aftermath of Spain's ruinous Civil War, the international war that followed, and the long years of political isolation. But the rest lay in Franco's inept administering, in Spain's archaic economic system, and perhaps in those national qualities described by a 19th century Spanish statesman: "I do not know where we are going, but I do know this-that...
...hammer and sickle had finally exhausted the credit that Glezos won by defying the Nazis. Last week, found guilty by a military court, onetime Hero Glezos was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, four years' exile to a barren Aegean island and eight years' loss of civil rights...
Defendant Korpa had told the judge that he attended a Roman Catholic church, and to Baptist Eyman it seemed quite "normal and natural to tell the boy to go to church." But last week the American Civil Liberties Union was yelling foul. The spirit of the Constitution had been violated, said A.C.L.U.'s Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens...