Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these circumstances. Nasser, who had also sailed out of the eastern Mediterranean in search of some relaxation (see above), might accept the challenge to live up to Dag Hammarskjold's bland finding that his U.A.R.'s meddling was not major. Then it would become possible for the Lebanese government to solve the crisis with its own means, if it has the will...
...Western delegates arrived in Geneva in a mood of no nonsense, no politics and not much hope. This was to be a scientific meeting of technical experts, but the Western scientists were uncertain whether the Eastern delegates would be in the same mood-or whether the Eastern delegates would be there...
...hills of eastern Cuba, 50 U.S. and Canadian citizens were caught-some to their own amusement-in the middle of the war between Rebel Fidel Castro and Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Their captor and genial host: Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother, who was mistakenly convinced that the U.S. is arming Batista. Wishing to teach Washington a lesson, young Castro decided to kidnap Americans wholesale from the neighboring sugar mills and nickel mines, and from among the personnel of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. But he was also at pains to let his captives know that he meant...
...eastern end of the International Rapids, where the brawling river forms the boundary between Ontario and New York, two new dams went up-the dams that last week drowned the old rapids under a navigable lake 28 miles long and up to four miles wide. One was the St. Lawrence Power Dam. The other, the Long Sault (pronounced soo) Spillway Dam, stands across the old main river bed to divert water to the power dam and a bypass ship channel...
Putting on the pressure, money-losing eastern railroads last week appealed to three states for tax relief or subsidy. The alternative: shut down some major passenger lines...