Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nkrumah was convinced that to establish his infant government's authority he had to smash the tribal power of the chiefs, particularly over land tenure, and substitute the political power of his party machine. He summarily deported five tribal leaders, highhandedly displaced local officers and replaced them with his own men, concentrating on the center of resistance in the cocoa-rich Ashanti country...
...four years the Dutch tried vainly to re-establish themselves in Indonesia. They tried it with two major military campaigns, which only proved that they could seize any city they wanted but they could not control the countryside. At one time (1948) Dutch paratroops captured President Sukarno and every member of his Cabinet except Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, who was in Sumatra and continued the fight. In 1949, worn down by Indonesian resistance and world opinion, the Dutch gave up. All of their old island possessions except West New Guinea became the Republic of Indonesia. Sukarno and his fellow revolutionaries...
...repeat performance of last month's 82-70 victory over the Elis would give the Crimson its first winning season in Ivy League history, establish a new record for most games won in a single season, and notch the first Big Three championship for a Harvard quintet. All this, of course, is mere addition to the satisfaction which only a victory over a Yale team can afford...
Mutual Assistance. Last week the French Cabinet decided on a drastic measure to end Tunisian aid to Algeria. They propose to establish an artificial no man's land 6 to 30 miles wide along the Algerian side of the frontier. All civilians-an estimated 70,000-will be evacuated from this area, and French patrols and aircraft will have orders to shoot anything that moves within the forbidden zone. To deny the rebels cover, the French plan to burn off a huge area of scrub forest with napalm over a period of three months. "If so much...
...none too plentiful labor force, still act as reserves ready to pour back across the border if necessary. Weapons kept by the U.S. in South Korea capable of delivering nuclear warheads rankle Peking and Moscow, and while Chou was ranting last week, Russia chimed in with a proposal to establish a "nuclear-free zone" prohibiting atomic weapons in the Korean peninsula...