Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslem League to stand firm until Pakistan's "Islamic" constitution can be framed (some time this summer) and national elections held. The deputies cheered Ali for his courage, but they knew as well as he did that he could no longer claim to speak for the huge Eastern segment of his country, nor for 60% of his people...
...During the Korean war, Winnington freely circulated behind Communist lines, wrote long stories about the "germ warfare" U.N. forces were supposedly carrying on, got lists of U.N. prisoners for publication by Communist newspapers when even the International Red Cross could get no such information. He also angered Far Eastern Commander Matthew...
Last week Winnington's status finally got official recognition from the British Foreign Office. When he applied at the British consulate in Peking for a renewal of his passport so that he could cover the Geneva Far Eastern Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), he was summarily turned down. The consulate informed him that he could only get a "traveler's permit" that would allow him to return to Brit ain, but no place else. It was the first such turndown for a Communist, although people such as Britain's Fascist Oswald Mosley have also been turned down. Winnington...
...Bradley had reached the final. During the regular season, the Bradley team had a mediocre record of 15 victories, twelve defeats. The "Pride of Peoria" had been a last-minute choice to round out the tournament field of 24 teams, had marched ahead in a succession of upsets. The Eastern finalist in the tournament of upsets was considerably more imposing: Philadelphia's La Salle College, sparked by All-America Tom Gola, and possessor of a regular season record of 21 victories, four defeats...
...year ago, the persecution of Protestantism in East Germany was at its height. Then Stalin died, and, like the sudden end of a spring storm, sweetness and light seemed to shine from Moscow. Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl received the bishops of the Eastern Evangelical Churches and a treaty of church-state peace was signed...