Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jurists coldly dismissed the Reds' claim that they had "liberated" the Tibetan people from oppressive overlords. Although Tibet was a feudal society before the Red Chinese came, the jurists found that its people were thoroughly happy. Never had there been an instance of Tibetan popular uprising. It was also untrue that China had improved the condition of the Tibetan masses, said the investigators. The considerable economic and industrial development that has taken place was all "directly related" to the needs of the half-million Chinese settled in Tibet. The poor Tibetans had only grown poorer...
...Wandering cows and insistent beggars who normally clog the streets were hustled out of town. Haile Selassie also arranged to keep from delegates the nasty story of the massacre at the town of Yirga-Alam last March, when his police shot down hundreds of peasants who revolted against their feudal landlords...
Bounces & Returns. With those prizes at stake, some bombs and bullets flew, and at least ten persons lay dead after political quarrels. Yet the secret ballot was getting results. Rural voters took the opportunity to eject two scions of old feudal clans from their traditional seats. Ex-President Chamoun, who accused his successors of rigging this election to bar him from a comeback, squeaked through to win a Maronite Christian seat. Also elected was a kingpin in the 1958 revolt that toppled Chamoun, moody Kamal Jumblatt. Another leader of that revolt, ex-Premier Saeb Salam, was confidently expected...
...after lunch, one in early evening, one for the night). Premier Feisal had to placate fanatical religious leaders who exploded in fury at every mention of reform. Even the most progressive of his brother princes think no good can come of introducing democracy right now, and fear that the feudal kingdom of Saudi Arabia might fragment if local parliaments were allowed. Frustrated, entangled in bigotry and the ever-sprouting tendrils of corruption in government, Feisal fell seriously ill (most of his life, he has had to endure chronic pain, reportedly the result of a childhood appendectomy). Last week, looking drawn...
...Nepal and Tibet. But Nepal's Prime Minister flatly refused Chou's offer of a nonaggression pact. As for Nepal's bedrock problems. King Mahendra. during a month-long tour of the U.S. and Canada, hoped to expand Western sympathy for an awakening land hampered by feudal poverty and widespread (94%) illiteracy...