Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week East Pakistanis no longer even had a government of their own. After two provincial governments collapsed within three days in Dacca, Pakistan's Strongman Iskander Mirza suspended the East Pakistan provincial assembly and imposed direct presidential rule on the province. That meant that 55% of the population of Pakistan were being ruled under autocratic control from the distant national capital...
...could one deal with such people? Vag was indeed perplexed, especially when the rational world he lived in was threatened by a direct attack...
...desk, Sherman Adams is all business. His chief job is screening the endless flow of business that swamps the President's office and presenting Ike with the kind of direct information-such as a trimmed-down list of names for federal job appointments-on which the President can base a decision. "Whatever I have to do," explained the President at his press conference, "he has in some measure to do." Adams must also settle disputes among top-level officials. "The Governor," says a White House staffer, "is the only man around here with stature enough...
...miles of mountain border between Syria and Lebanon-a job that would take a force of perhaps 5,000 men. But they were empowered to report, not to halt, any infiltration of the border. The fact was that, at the moment, the real difficulty was not so much the direct outside help as the maneuverings of Pan-Arab elements inside Lebanon, led by ex-Premier Saeb Salam. The odd reluctance to push matters to a fighting conclusion stemmed from the realization, among many Christians and Moslems alike, that prosperous Lebanon could exist only as a dual state of Moslems...
...Swedes have also put this shelter to revenue-producing peacetime use. Currently leased to an oil company, Katarinaberget has room for 550 parked cars, a service station, a drive-in bank. A roof of granite more than 80 ft. thick makes the shelter safe against anything but a direct hit by a nuclear bomb. The ventilating system has a capacity of 1,000,000 cu. ft. of air per hour, and the Swedes have learned a lesson from the wartime bombing of Hamburg, when raging fires in the city sent superheated air surging into the shelters, suffocated and burned their...