Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dine with a black M.P. in Salisbury's topflight Meikle's Hotel, Southern Rhodesians were scandalized at her bringing along a "munt" (from a Bantu word for man, used by Rhodesians as a rough equivalent of the U.S.'s "nigger"). Last week Southern Rhodesia was hard at it again with Labor, this time over a tall, aggressive, 33-year-old M.P. from England named John Thomson Stonehouse...
...Told My People . . ." As a precaution against a Nairobi mob demonstrating in Kenyatta's favor, the court was moved to Kitale, 200 miles to the north. Kenyatta's seven-year sentence to "hard labor" is being spent as cook to six other Mau Mau leaders, and with a year off for good behavior, he is scheduled to be freed next month. Last week Kenyatta appeared in court in dapper leather jacket and carrying a silver-embossed ebony cane that was a gift of his followers. Whistling through a hole in his front teeth, he testified that...
...almost eleven years of Israel's existence as a nation, white-thatched Premier David Ben-Gurion has never hesitated to take tough decisions, in spite of the consequences, which are often economic. The hard-pressed Israelis are still paying special heavy assessments for their militarily brilliant Sinai invasion of Egypt. Now faced with the problem of absorbing 100,000 new immigrants (mostly from Communist Rumania), the government last week slapped new taxes, up to 70%, on consumer goods, ranging from aspirin to refrigerators. It abolished rationing, price controls and subsidies on essential foodstuffs and proclaimed a "compulsory loan," which...
...year-old Ben-Gurion: one-eyed Major General Moshe Dayan, 43, former army chief of staff and hero of Sinai. Ben-Gurion packed him off 13 months ago to Hebrew University to catch up on his education after years of fighting; he has since flunked several subjects, is still hard at work making up for the schooling gaps in a busy soldier's life...
...absolve those criminal pilots." He had Chief Defense Counsel Aristides Dacosta hauled in by rebel troops and flown to military headquarters in Havana for a talking-to. He sent his bearded Defense Minister, Augusto Martinez, to Santiago to organize a "review" court. The new verdict: 30 years at hard labor for the pilots, lesser terms for non-pilots. Two were acquitted...