Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Congress Party would wither away. Instead, it stayed intact, and, with Nehru as its great drawing card, lapsed into corruption, inefficiency and apathy. Now for the first time there is a real opposition stirring, led by one of India's grand old men and only Governor General, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (familiarly known as "C.R."), who is a frisky 80. Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists and the malevolent Communists, C.R. last month founded a conservative political party known as the Freedom Party. Among its supporters: anti-Nehru Bombay Businessman Raja...
...full Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus: "The intention to offend you or degrade your reputation was absolutely remote to me . . . You can be sure of my full confidence in you as a politician and as a man ... I gratefully recognize the great merits of your political activities in general, and particularly in your special [economic] fields...
...General Karim Kassem's revolution will be one year old on July 14, and sweltering Baghdad last week was alive with preparations for the great day. Triumphal arches rose in the streets, and a new Iraqi flag-red, black, green and yellow-was going up on lampposts...
...Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, 58, proved surprisingly lenient last November when, in a bloodless coup, he seized the premiership of Sudan at the head of a military junta formed to combat "deteriorating democracy" (TIME, Dec. 1). No political enemies went to jail, and two former Prime Ministers were actually pensioned off at a liberal ?100 a month. But leniency has its limits, and last week, in the air-conditioned, blue-carpeted Sudanese Parliament chamber at Khartoum, two rebellious brigadiers faced a full-dress court-martial. The charge: mutiny...
...corrupt old ways, antagonistic to the West, and impatient for change. In early March the two, Abdel-Rahim Mohammed Kheir Shennan, 46, and Moheiddin Ahmed Abdullah, 43, with two battalions of troops, quietly surrounded Khartoum, captured Abboud's No. 2 man and held him for 24 hours. Fatherly General Abboud, after hearing the two soldiers' complaints, dismissed his No. 2 man and appointed both Shennan and Moheiddin to places on the ruling Supreme Military Council. They did good jobs: Moheiddin as Minister of Communications; taut, lithe, Eager Beaver Shennan as Minister of Local Government. But their ambitions went...