Word: governed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Leonard Wood, original commander of the Rough Riders, moved up to govern Cuba, and in 90 days stamped out the Aëdes aegypti mosquito, freeing Havana of yellow fever for the first time in 140 years. Four years after the U.S. marched in, it marched...
Hilltop Casbah. A couple of months ago the Riffs of Morocco began to complain openly against the King's government in Rabat. They resent the city-bred administrators that Rabat has sent to govern them, claim that non-French-speaking Moroccans have been frozen out, and that government police have used arbitrary methods, including "torture that even the French could not devise." Six weeks ago an organization called the Rif Liberation and Liquidation Movement suddenly came to light, patterned after the hierarchy of the Algerian rebels across the border...
...like its neighbor Afghanistan. Without the special qualities of its 19 million people, who have been taught cleverness and patience by history, are generally more devoted to their kinsmen than their nation, and are suspicious of every move by those in power, Iran would be an easier country to govern. For example, Iranian slum dwellers have been known to refuse to move into newly completed low-cost housing because they were sure that there must be a trick...
Present criticism of South Africa's treatment of the Bantu and other colored peoples is based on ignorance, he charged. "World opinion which has the power to criticize does not have the responsibility to govern. We do," DuPlessis continued. The end result, he asserted, will prove the correctness of our policy...
...rightly, is that student leaders, elected from and by a student body, carry with them many of the views and characteristics of their electors. The NSA delegates are, at the least, aware of the trends of student opinion at their schools. It is these opinions which should and do govern their behaviour...