Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they would never see their country united on any terms but Moscow's. From a platform set up at the foot of the huge Stalin statue whose destruction by rioters sparked the 1956 uprising, he announced that the democracies of the West must not think of including Eastern Europe on the summit agenda: "No, gentlemen, don't step into anyone else's garden...
...ponyback down a precipitous trail in Cuba's eastern Sierra Maestra, TIME Contributing Editor Sam Halper last week brought out a dispatch on Rebel Commander Fidel Castro's personality, plans and politics...
Colonel Simbolon, who marched off with one battalion to take command of the rebel forces in North Sumatra, last week was back in Bukittinggi without 1) his troops, 2) report of victory. In the eastern foothills of the Sumatra mountains, government troops from the oil center of Pakanbaru had pushed the rebels back within 70 miles of Bukittinggi. To the south, the government's hard-working paratroopers were inching through the jungle to cut the last rebel artery to the outside-the potholed road that leads to Palembang in South Sumatra...
...United Lutheran Church crosses are sometimes worn as a symbol of supervisory office. * Dutch Lutherans came first to America (New Amsterdam) in 1623. In 1638 Swedish Lutherans established a colony in Delaware. By mid-18th century Lutheranism was firmly established, mostly by Germans, along the eastern seaboard. Patriarch of Lutheranism in the U.S. was the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, organizer and theologian, who in 1748 formed the first Lutheran Synod in America. In the early 19th century Lutheranism joined the great westward move, swept along by new waves of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia...
...monsoon rains that caused landslides and washed away bridges. Another rebel column from Tapanuli was stopped dead by a government regiment that was supposed to switch over to the rebels but did not. Djakarta gleefully announced that the remnants of Nangolan's command were cornered on the eastern shore of Lake Toba...