Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three nations most plainly in need of the kind of help the new bank can offer are Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile. But Bolivia's President Hernan Siles Zuazo has been backing a stern anti-inflation program with everything from hunger strikes to threats to resign, and there are hopeful signs of recovery. Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner, reinaugurated last week, has stabilized the currency, balanced the budget and held the rise in cost of living to a low (for Paraguay) 1% per month. And Chile's President Carlos Ibanez has sacrificed his personal popularity to back tough...
...arrived as the diplomats were gathering to carve up Viet Nam. He pitched his green tent on a patch of lawn outside the Palais des Nations. To protest the division of his homeland, he went on a hunger strike, but the diplomats purring past in their black cars paid no attention, and only blood transfusions saved Vo's life. After his recovery, Vo-a teacher in Viet Nam, where the French often jailed him for his nationalist views-wangled accreditation as a newsman, commandeered a desk in the Palais, and started his own newsletter (in French) to campaign against...
...world's most confused people," wailed one. Dr. Sampurnanand replied by setting up a commission with himself as chairman, and the commission decided that ayurvedic and Western medicine would not mix. Conclusion: the students would have to drop their Western studies. With that, two ayurveda students began hunger strikes. Responding to this form of protest, made classical for Indians by the example of Gandhi, Lucknow University students heeded the ayurvedics' call for a citywide general strike, got into last week's riots...
...Nahda secondary school, Nasser organized schoolboy riots, about this time ordered an assassination (presumably of an Egyptian political leader) that narrowly failed to come off, and lay awake shuddering on his own salvation. That year the British refused to grant home rule to India; Gandhi went on a hunger strike, and Nehru to jail...
...week's end, only doctors at six Catholic and three Protestant hospitals had won their demands. That still left 90% of the doctors on strike-and they won support from an unexpected source. At one hospital, Lainze Krankenhaus, in sympathy with their doctors, bed patients went on a hunger strike...