Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thailand. The open seizure of power by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat last October has had in Thailand much the same revivifying effect as Ne Win's takeover in Burma. Sarit, who is not in the best of health, seems to have gone through a moral regeneration. He has ordered...
Boisson was not the only civil functionary to get the boot last week. In a surprise morning broadcast to his people, sandwiched in between the commercials and the canned music on Radio Monte Carlo, Prince Rainier III "temporarily" suspended Monaco's constitution and fired both the 18-man National...
Fidel Castro's "purification" of Cuba rolled on, harsh, moralistic, fervid. Purified was the vast gambling establishment, purified was government graft. Purification also drove the bearded conquerors to set aside more and more of the constitution in order to purge the losers by firing squad. Castro's men...
Empty Rights. Just as Batista had done time and again, the rebels casually whacked away at the Cuban constitution. They denied the right of habeas corpus to Batista underlings awaiting trial for "war crimes" (thus permitting unlimited detention without the posting of charges), repealed a ban on the creation of...
In the push and pull that has taken place in Africa since France's territories voted on the De Gaulle constitution, the federation was an answer to the fear of West African leaders such as Senegal's Leopold Senghor that the newly autonomous states within the French Community...