Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still flaming across the Middle East was the unanswered question of whether the Arabs want stability more than they want Nasser and his dreams of Indian-Ocean-to-the-Atlantic-Ocean world empire. And at week's end that other air-age diplomat, Nikita Khrushchev, flew back from Peking after totally secret, portentous talks with Red China's Chairman Mao, sat down in Moscow and growled as though a peaceful settlement of anything was the farthest thing from his mind...
...longer be justified by such hoarse cries. The flames of violence that had flared in the Middle East had been dampened. Iraq's new regime had diplomatic recognition from just about everybody. In Lebanon the election of General Fuad Chehab as President (see below) raised hopes for an end to civil war and withdrawal in due season of U.S. troops...
...end of it all came last spring when the gendarmes, looking for witnesses to an auto accident that happened outside Yvette's house, stumbled on Wayne. After questioning him, they turned him over to U.S. Army authorities in Verdun. Like a waking child, Wayne rediscovered a harsh world which he could no longer grasp. After 14 years with Yvette, he spoke French with a marked Norman accent. He barely understood English; even the G.I. uniform that was given him seemed unfamiliar...
...week's end panicky Red Boss Namboodiripad began backing down. His government announced its willingness to withdraw all cases against student agitators, and would let them ride free on the ferryboats pending a "judicial" inquiry into the fare rise. But students and workers were still up in arms against their Communist government...
...Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro's complaints did not impress Washington, but the State Department was put out with the Navy for breaking the U.S. nonintervention policy. Another objection was that Dictator Batista might be gulling U.S. troops into combat with his enemies, the rebels. At week's end the State Department prevailed and the marines withdrew. Without comment, Batista sent his troops back to guard the pumps...