Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks became months, some of the mercenaries tried to escape, were caught by Cuban army patrols. One boy, David Chervony. the 17-year-old, went on the abortive invasion of June 14, and was probably killed. The others refused to go -and were clapped into prison. They were freed after a two-day hunger strike, told to leave Cuba and keep their mouths shut. Last week the U.S. Justice Department was quietly gathering evidence to present to a grand jury. The U.S. could do nothing about what happens in Cuba. But it could halt the illegal recruiting of U.S. citizens...
...Domestic currency, freed by Alessandri, has stabilized at 1,052 pesos to the dollar (up from the 1958 low of. 1,200). Foreign-exchange reserves are .back to $30 million, highest since January...
...banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again had more than $3 billion in gold and exchange in the till-and new self-confidence. It freed the economy from a tangle of regulations, lowered income and corporate taxes, made sterling convertible, and announced the end of import restrictions against most goods coming from the dollar area...
...Saud that civil war and bankruptcy might ruin the land if Feisal stepped down. By last week, after hours of debate, the council had patched together a compromise: the King approved Feisal's budget and Feisal assumed responsibility for the King's debts; Editor al Jasir was freed from jail, and the King conceded the importance of going through channels. Thus Saudi Arabia, still very much a family business, edged another painful inch toward constitutional monarchy, if not toward democracy...
...years ago. Luis got himself elected in his father's place. While brother Tachito tried to keep the country quiet under the heavy thumb of the national guard, U.S.-educated (Universities of California. Maryland and Louisiana State) President Luis tried to wipe out the dictator label. He freed the press, treated plotters with unheard-of leniency, promised free elections in 1963. even proposed a constitutional amendment that would prevent him or any near relative from following him to the presidency...