Word: goa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute over Goa, that pimple of Portuguese sovereignty on India's west coast, has been described by Jawaharlal Nehru as the "acid test" by which India judges other nations: any friend of India's must agree that Portugal should get out. Last week Goa became something of an acid test for India...
...claim before the World Court in The Hague 21 months ago, protesting that Portuguese were being denied the right to pass across Indian territory to get to two tiny Portuguese enclaves, Dadra and Nagar Aveli. Last week a case reached court-and though the Portuguese right to be in Goa was not at stake, the subject kept coming up. India had hired a potent battery of British lawyers, including former Socialist Attorney General Sir Frank Soskice, to argue that travel inside its own borders is an internal affair of India and that the court has no jurisdiction. The Indians also...
...through 2% full days of handshaking and speechifying without once mentioning foreign affairs. Last week, before the Lower House of India's Parliament, Nehru finally spoke on foreign affairs, but confined himself for the most part to a discussion of problems directly affecting India, e.g., Pakistan, Goa, Kashmir. On Hungary, which the 'Indian delegation will in effect ignore when the U.N.'s report comes up this week, Nehru came down ever so softly on the right side: "We do not believe foreign forces should remain there...
...been made public where the funds for the increases will come from. However, there is speculation that at least some will be money already pledged or collected for the $82.5 million Program for Harvard College. Well over ten percent of the goa has already been pledged or collected...
...prevalence of juvenile delinquency in the U.S. The second, dealing with Queen Elizabeth's recent tour of Portugal, commented: "Elizabeth II is sorry that the world is not able to appreciate the hanging by the neck of Greek patriots in Cyprus or the butcheries of the Portuguese in Goa. We regret the low level of intelligence...