Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down-to-smokestack antismog attack, raised taxes enough to trim a threatened $201 million deficit to $5,000,000, launched a long-dreamed-of $2 billion waterway program to deliver Northern California's water to Southern California's arid, sunny region (TIME, June 29). He gained effective control of a divided party, has cagily chaperoned visiting would-be nominees, giving none a chance to sneak around his favorite-son "off-limits" sign...
...soldier's comrades chased the judge to his home and began shooting it up. Surrendering to save his family, the judge was killed on the spot, and then, in that favorite democratic ritual in the Middle East, his body was dragged through the streets. In the excitement, civil control collapsed and the army last week took over Taiz, Yemen's second capital, and for good measure seized Hodeida, the main Red Sea port, as well...
Through it all, Kassem continues to let himself be used as a propaganda front man at Communist rallies. Kassem seems to believe everything the Reds have to say about the iniquities of the West. Still, he quietly rejects their more obvious efforts to gain more control in Iraq. To groups of soldiers last week, the general repeated his credo: "I shall never belong to any party. I advise you not to allow any specific party to penetrate your ranks...
...demanded of the Communist government of Kerala, India's only Red-ruled state. Kerala's Communist Chief Minister, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, refused even to consider the demands from local Socialist, Moslem and Congress Party groups. Equally implacably, he continued to enforce a law tightening his government's control of private schools-a measure that had driven Kerala's numerous Roman Catholics and Hindu Nairs to league against him. In the first eight days of Gandhi-style, "nonviolent" demonstrations against the Reds, Namboodiripad's police three times fired into crowds, killed twelve people. By late last week...
...last November, he felt in no position to test his strength in a popular vote. His archrival, Jacques Opangault, who barely missed getting the job himself, persistently demanded general elections, but Premier Youlou refused, using his meager majority of one vote in the Legislative Assembly to proclaim himself in control until 1962. The political squabble touched off bloody rioting that in February left more than 100 dead in Brazzaville's native quarters...