Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heedless of Communist demands that still more "reactionaries" be thrown into already crowded jails, Kassem chose the eve of the Moslem Id al-Adha holiday to give amnesty to hundreds of political exiles and prisoners arrested after last year's revolt. "This will provide an opportunity for all citizens to live in an atmosphere free from feuds and grudges," declared Kassem...
...enjoyed before the agreement of 1951. Though studiously polite about his host, the Dalai Lama gently hinted that he was getting a bit impatient with Prime Minister Nehru's obsession with getting along with Peking no matter what. "I hope," said he, "that the government of India will give our cause the same support, if not more, as it has given to small countries like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia." As for a meeting between Nehru and Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai on Tibet, that might be useful-"provided the actual events in Tibet are considered in true perspective...
...purpose behind the coordinated attacks on the U.S. by the Soviet press is clear: it is an effort to cut the U.S. exposition down to U.S.S.R. size before it opens and to give Russians the impression that it is sheer propaganda with no relation to reality...
...startling new problem of keeping far-out candidates like Homer out of newscasts arose because of the Federal Communications Commission's overly cautious interpretation of the Communications Act, which declares that any station that lets any legally qualified candidate use its air time must give equal opportunities to competing candidates. Until last February, this provision was interpreted to cover political campaigning. Then a perennial also-ran in Chicago named Lar Daly (TIME, March 30) claimed that it also governed straight newscasts, charged that WBBM-TV had violated the act by not giving him equal time after showing film clips...
...some common sense into the law. Hustling to do just that before the 1960 presidential campaigns begin in earnest, the Senate subcommittee took under consideration eleven bills to keep splinter candidates from snagging newscasts, heard CBS President Frank Stanton declare that it would have been impossible to give equal-time coverage to all candidates of the 18 parties in 1956. If the rule is not changed, said Stanton, "simple mathematics establishes that we will have no choice but to turn our microphones and cameras away from all candidates during campaign periods...