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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mourning "the martyrs of Arabism who fell dead from bullets of treacherous, criminal Kassem." In Jordan, where young King Hussein has been half-reconciled to Nasser by Kassem's involvement with the Communists, the state radio broadcast an appeal to all Arabs to "protect Iraq from Communist gangs." Even some erstwhile Kassem defenders turned hostile: in Lebanon a crowd of 3,000 battled police in a drive to overrun the Iraqi embassy, and Beirut's Le Soir, long friendly to the Baghdad regime, fulminated, "Dipped in blood to the roots of their hair, will the masters of Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: One for the Seesaw | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...profitable "positive neutrality" is tough, bald Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, 50. Cousin to Afghanistan's figurehead King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Daoud took over as Prime Minister six years ago, deals with everything from high policy to trivial administrative details. Hard-working and ironfisted, he is quick to jail even his own Cabinet ministers if they step out of line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: The High-Wire Man | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...struggling with a budget have not made Cafe Filho bitter. He lives with his wife, Jandyra, 56, (they have a son, 16, who is preparing for the naval academy), in the three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Beach where he has lived for the past 15 years, even as President. "I'm not disappointed," he says. "I am the son of a small, poor state. I was always in the opposition. Yet I was elected Vice President and reached the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Good ex-President | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...balance of payments deficit was $307 million; this year the experts figured the deficit would be closer to $400 million. But the booming coffee sales are bringing unexpected millions, and last week, by conservative reckoning, the 1959 deficit promised to be $200 million or less; Kubitschek & Co. even talk of a surplus. Turned down three months ago when he applied for approval from the International Monetary Fund for a $300 million bailout, Kubitschek says: "Loans? We don't need loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Coffee Cause & Effect | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...corn, materialized suddenly under the noses of Garst and visitors. "Get back! Get back there!" bellowed Garst, surprised and angry. "Bring those horses in here; ride 'em down." he commanded a mounted troop of Greene County Pleasure Riders. "Get back there or I'll kick you out. even if your name is Harrison Salisbury." he threatened, and as good as his word, he planted a sturdy Garst brogan on the leg of The New York Times's reporter-probably the mildest mannered of all the trespassers in the corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Overworking Press | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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