Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlanta, six days after dynamiters did $200,000 worth of damage to the interior of the Reform Jewish congregation's Temple, a massive effort by city police and far-ranging squads of FBI brought indictments against five local residents who, if not the actual bombers, were deemed to be in on the deed. The indictments, brought under a state statute that carries a maximum penalty of death, marked the first successful police effort against the bands of stealthy racists who have rocked the South with 83 bombs, seven of them against Jewish institutions, since the Supreme Court...
...Pioneer faltered and began to fall back, scientists at tracking stations tried to fire the Stage Four rocket in the hope it would send the probe into an orbit around the earth. The rocket did not fire. The official theory is that the interior temperature of the Pioneer fell so low (35°F.) that its battery lost power and could not work the firing system. Some experts have suggested a simpler cause: a broken electrical connection...
...government. The first result was to move Hourani as a member of the new central Cabinet out of Syria and into Egypt. A second was to clip the scheming Colonel Abdel Hamid Ser-raj's power as proconsul in Syria by placing him under the Egyptian Minister of Interior, who would take over Serraj's much-prized authority to appoint Syrian provincial governors. That took care of the two most ambitious power seekers in Damascus. In the shuffle Nasser also dropped his second Syrian Vice President, Sabri el Assali. Then he published decrees abolishing Syria's tribal...
...Berber tribes of the interior were no readier to accept French authority than that of the Dey. Rallying behind AbdelKader, the handsome, 25-year-old son of a holy man, they launched a jihad (holy war) to expel the infidel. French General Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, a veteran of Napoleon's Spanish campaign, where the word guerrilla was invented, responded with a tactic called the razzia -a swift, merciless strike at a native village, sparing nothing and nobody. In one razzia, in 1845, nearly 500 Algerian men, women and children were asphyxiated by fires lit at the mouth...
...neighboring Tunisia had with little bloodshed won from France the promise of internal autonomy. Perhaps F.L.N. leaders did not foresee a long fight for themselves. But in French eyes, Algeria was not a mere colony like Tunisia; it was an inseparable part of France "The only negotiation," announced French Interior Minister Fran-gois Mitterrand, "is war." By middle 1956 there were 400,000 French troops tied down in Algeria. The following year, to seal off Algeria from Tunisia, French forces began construction of the grandiose Ligne Morice (named after former Defense Minister Andre Morice)-a 150-mile, electrified barbed-wire...