Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORTNIGHT ago TIME Middle Eastern Correspondent William McHale had an exclusive interview with Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, and the Premier gave McHale an autographed photograph of himself. Before McHale could get it to press, the interview was being broadcast four times daily over the government radio. Then, in an abrupt switch, McHale got a summons to police headquarters, was given twelve hours to get out of the country. Two other U.S. correspondents, CBS's Winston Burdett and U.P.I.'s Larry Collins, got similar calls. The only explanation given the three men, none of whom...
...apparently became convinced that Nikita Khrushchev is obsessed with fear that the U.S. intends to attack Russia at the first opportunity. Macmillan's conclusion: the way to cure Khrushchev of his obsession is for the West to make public admission-at least by implication-that Soviet mastery of Eastern Europe is a "fact of life" that the Western powers do not intend to try to change by force. For doing this, the West might get new assurances of its rights in Berlin...
...Soviet control of East Germany and of Eastern Europe is such a clear fact of life, as Khrushchev likes to call it, why does Khrushchev care so much whether it is formally acknowledged by the West? Obviously, such recognition would give the final stamp of legitimacy to Soviet colonialism. By destroying all hope in the conquered lands, the West could indeed relax tensions for Russia, but at a cost of weakening itself...
...promised to kick out students for any more bad behavior, finally admitted that both sides had cause for grievance, and said he would confer with Mayor Lee. For a fillip, the university prepared this week to play host to a long-planned conference of campus police from 18 Eastern colleges. The cops were to discuss, among other things, how to put down a student disturbance...
Hastily formed in the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution, the Freedom Council collected almost $1000 to help bring a Freedom Fighter to Harvard. Since then, it has sponsored a commemoration program. With a "lasting interest in Eastern Europe," the Council "feels it is waiting on something," and at present its organization is "rather relaxed." Some members are working for the Vienna Youth Festival Information Service "to give us something to do," said Prescott Evarts '60, president. Perhaps if another revolution occurs in the satellites the council can recapture its former moment of glory...