Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really possible to govern a country by ritual and yielding, there is no more to be said. But if it is not really possible, of what use is ritual...
...country does not have a single native graduate engineer, architect, chemist or agricultural expert; in all Ethiopia there is only one native physician. Selassie must rely on foreign help to bolster his ministries. Americans, who predominate among his advisers, govern the national bank, edit the official newspaper, run the nationalized airline, and direct highway construction. A Swedish military mission trains the Imperial Guard and a fledgling air force...
...June 23), Talal had come home. Changing from Western to Arabic dress, he capped his kaffiyeh not with the usual double strand of gold agal worn by all royalty, but with the simple black commoner's cord he often prefers. A three-man regency council will continue to govern Jordan until either Talal recovers, or his son, Crown Prince Hussein, comes of age next...
Three Rulers. Last week, the answer to Talal's question was still unclear. Abul Huda set up a three-man regency council to govern Jordan. The regency, Abul Huda said, would rule until Talal could return to his throne or until young Crown Prince Hussein becomes 18 next May. Hussein is now in school at Harrow (Churchill's alma mater) along with his cousin, King Feisal of Iraq...
...build a school with the cost of a new car." He was wildly erratic: when a minor official complained about a cabinet minister, Velasco fired the minister on the spot and gave the job to the complainer. "Ecuador," Velasco concluded, "is a very difficult country to govern...