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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Item: Cyprus (pop. 500,000), Venus' home island, promised to cause almost as much trouble as she had. The British, who run Cyprus, answered the demands of most Cypriots for union with Greece by promising a vague home-rule plan. This enraged the Turkish minority on the island. In sympathy, Turkish mobs rioted in Istanbul, and inflicted damage on their town estimated at ten times the value of the whole island of Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Item: The Gaza strip between Israel and Egypt has seen 70 Egyptians and Israelis killed in the latest flare...
...Item: Thousands of Suda nese troops, Negroes from southern provinces, mutinied against their Arab officers from the north...
...Item: Morocco still boiled, despite French moves to create what they called "a free sovereign state" that would be permanently tied to France by an act of "interdependence." The toll since Aug. 20: about 3,000 dead, thousands more wounded...
...Item: Prosperous as it was, the U.S. was still a long way from solution of its Negro problem (see cover story) and many others...