Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the government was never in serious trouble, the jumpy junta impetuously arrested the leaders and many members of the two "safe" political parties it has been allowing to campaign for the Nov. 30 elections. Then, without explanation, it freed them and blamed the uprisings (as it blames most of its troubles) on Acción Democrática, the big left-wing majority party the junta drove underground in 1948. The government promised that the election would come off as planned...
...declined slightly (down eight-tenths of 1% in mid-September), other costs were rising. As federal rent controls expired last week, ceilings were dropped on 2,000,000 housing units (ceilings on the other 4,000,000 under federal controls were kept by local action). Landlords of many freed units wasted no time in jacking up rents. Though the boosts were limited in most places to about 10%, tenants feared that the landlords were just biding their time -waiting the day when there was no danger of controls being slapped back...
...members of the club, Lewis L. Smith '54 and Gerald M. Freed '52, said yesterday, "The issue is clear and simple. The H.Y.D. constitution explicitly states that prior approval of the president is required for all club expenditures. Certain individuals spent approximately $60 of club funds without this authorization...
...prisoners refusing repatriation would be taken to an "exchange point" and "freed from military control of both sides." They would then be free to remain with the U.N. or go to the Communists...
Four students, two in Moors Hall and two in Cabot, were trapped in an elevator for ten minutes before a resumption of newer freed them...