Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cantankerous old (83) Syngman Rhee does not like political opposition, but in the ten years since Korea's independence, and at the insistence of the U.S. and the U.N., has learned to accept it. Police harassment of antigovernment politicians has slackened steadily, and last week when the republic named...
Youthful (37) King Mahendra, ardent chess player, hunter and poet,* is an absolute ruler who earnestly does not want to be one. All week he pored over new drafts for a possible constitution. He also called in the leaders of four major political parties, got them to agree to help...
Togoland is a hot, humid and tiny country, 75 miles wide and 330 miles long, named by the Germans, given to the French under a U.N. trusteeship, and stuck like an afterthought on the map of Africa, between Ghana and the even tinier French territory of Dahomey. Of all French...
Actually, France has maintained this surface harmony largely because the leading party in the land, in the years immediately following World War II, has beaten the drum for independence and boycotted all elections since 1952. Each year Sylvanus Olympio, 56, head of the Comité de l'Unité...
Pale from fatigue and the lingering effects of flu, President Frondizi began ticking off his answers to the nation's pressing problems. The address, his first clear statement of position since the Feb. 23 election, added up to a moderate, vigorous program-a heartening swing away from the nationalist...