Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undeclared and mostly bloodless duel is being fought for the control of Indonesia's 3,000 islands and its 85.5 million people. The well-matched opponents are the only two organizations in the nation that are European in structure, efficiency and administration: 1) the army, under Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, 40. 2) the Communist Party, under the leadership of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, 36. These days the Communists are taking a silent licking...
...centuries against all intruders in Tibet, have now taken on the Reds. According to the reports, up to 8,000 of the leather-booted Khambas, swinging ancient swords on horseback, taking potshots with captured Red rifles and pushing boulders down the mountain sides onto Chinese truck convoys have gained control of a 200-square-mile area in eastern Tibet-most of the basin of the Brahmaputra River south of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. So far, they appear to be fighting more for themselves than in the name of the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, who with Red consent...
...edge of the mob. He marched straight through, headed for M.N.R. headquarters two blocks away, and the crowd followed. There, from a balcony, he pleaded that "shouts do not solve anything, and violence is useless," but he denounced TIME's correspondent as a "journalist without scruples." Out of control, the rioters followed their leaders to stone Point Four's La Paz offices and smash 25 heavy trucks and pickups of the U.S.-Bolivian Roads Service. During one of the attacks, a 15-year-old student was killed...
Four Faculty scientists have received research grants totaling $89,719 from the American Cancer Society. The largest amount, $64,000, was awarded to Howard H. Hiatt '46, associate in Medicine, for a study of cell control mechanisms...
First opposition speaker was M.D.C. Commissioner Charles W. Greenough '19, who described the legal background of the commission's control of the property. He concluded that he saw the bill as an attempt "to force a taking (by eminent domain) to be made," and "to create a value that doesn't exist." The land is assessed at only $100, though Sullivan says he paid much more...