Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closing the gap. The method: a thin chain of defense positions across the Middle East's northern perimeter, to be built piece by piece in separate pacts between the U.S. and the states of Pakistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Later, if Iran gets hold of itself internally, it would become another link. So would Afghanistan...
...guarding the prisoners. Nehru thinks that the prisoners should be held at least 30 days beyond the release date set in the armistice agreement. But last week U.S. observers on the scene believed that Thimayya had convinced his boss in New Delhi of another proposition: India cannot try to hold the prisoners beyond the deadline without risking a mass breakout and bloodshed, and India would be held responsible for it before the world. The U.S. has told Thimayya flatly that responsibility of the Indian troops for holding P.W.s in custody ceases at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 23. Thimayya, cooperative...
...China last week demanded that India hold the prisoners beyond the deadline so that more "explanations" could be undertaken. The Eighth Army's General Maxwell D. Taylor warned that any Communist attempt to interfere with the release would be met with force...
...crisis could be dramatized in cold, simple arithmetic: the Christian Democrats, who govern Italy, hold only 44.4% of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Italy's Communist Party, the largest, strongest, richest and smartest this side of the Iron Curtain, controls 36.9%. With a switch of only 24 seats-4%-from the center to the Communist-controlled side (i.e., Communists and the Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni), the Red left would be the dominant bloc in Italian politics. And on the far right, with 4.9% of the Chamber's seats, sit the neo-Fascists-often willing helpers...
Standing on a dock edging the black Caroni River one day last week, Venezuela's President Marcos Perez Jimenez pressed a button, started a conveyer belt, and sent baseball-sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...