Word: docked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doggy Details. First in the dock was ex-President Bayar, 77, still haggard from his suicide attempt last month. Bayar, onetime comrade-in-arms of the late great Kemal Ataturk, was charged with treason for ruling dictatorially in violation of the Turkish constitution. But the army regime was first anxious to destroy whatever prestige Bayar still has, and it began with an accusation astonishingly petty. On a state visit to Afghanistan, Bayar had received an Afghan hound as a present from the King. He brought it back to Turkey and put it into the Ankara zoo. Subsequently, says the prosecution...
...hand. A squad of pro-Mobutu soldiers arrived with a warrant to arrest Patrice Lumumba but were turned back by a Ghanaian officer of the U.N. corps because the warrant was not properly drawn. A big river boat loaded with 400 soldiers pulled up at a Leopoldville dock, and the panicky word went out that they were Lumumba troops from his upriver stronghold of Stanleyville. Truckloads of Mobutu's forces raced to the dock, escorted by jeeps armed with bazookas, recoilless rifles and machine guns. In the excitement, an armored car fired a wild shot into the river before...
...Baltika steamed ever closer to its East River dock with Nikita Khrushchev and his satellite claque, the prospect of the greatest diplomatic spectacle ever proved almost irresistible. Already, 26 heads of government, either in name or fact, were publicly committed to attend this week's U.N. General Assembly meeting. And when Washington announced that President Eisenhower planned to speak to the Assembly (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), other heads of state began to get itchy feet. India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who had originally been minded to stay away, now seemed likely to come. So did Tunisia's President Habib...
Beards & Basins. At the Cherche-Midi court in Paris, 25 defendants crowded the dock. Almost all were under 30, most of them wore the corduroy jackets, sandals, beards and basin hairdos familiar in the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter. They were members of the "Jeanson" organization, accused of much more than mere distaste for government policies and practices. They were charged with smuggling money out of France to buy arms and munitions for the F.L.N. columns fighting the French in Algeria. All but six of the 25 were French men and women-teachers, mathematicians, TV producers, actors...
FIVE NEW FREIGHTERS are called for in $53 million contract signed by United States Lines with Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Co. as first step in U.S. Lines' $450 million building program. Within twelve years, line will replace up to 46 ships in cargo fleet...