Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atop a hill in Tananarive, the capital of the great French island of Madagascar, stands a rose-colored palace that once housed the royal rulers of the land. Pointing to it one day last August, Charles de Gaulle, the first French Premier ever to set foot on the island, solemnly told a throng of 30,000: "Tomorrow you will be a state once more, as you were when that palace was inhabited." Last week, having voted an overwhelming (79%) yes for De Gaulle's constitution, the Malagasy, as the inhabitants of Madagascar are known, took the general...
...Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, Tariki is an oil engineer with a master's degree from the University of Texas, is divorced from his American wife. His dedicated Arab nationalism is reportedly deepened by painful memories of having been confused with Mexicans in Texas. In the land of sheiks with Cadillacs and concubines, he is regarded as personally incorruptible. He has long felt that Arab countries should share in profits made on their oil outside the country as well as in it. Last December he struck an offshore oil deal with Japanese oilmen for an "integrated company...
...Development Bank has lent the new small holders money at low interest. But his fellow landlords (who own 70% of Iran's arable acres, the vast majority of its 40,000 villages) have heeded neither the Shah's example nor his exhortations to sell some of their land to the peasants. In fact, at one point a few years ago, the landlords were so embarrassed by the Shah's generosity that they even persuaded the government to stop the Shah's own sales to sharecroppers...
...revolution in neighboring Iraq that swept King Feisal to his death last summer and touched off sweeping land reform appears to have strengthened the Shah's reforming hand in Iran. Last week, though the landlords of Iran are as numerous and as niggardly as ever in the national parliament and ministries, the Shah boldly cut off one of their most cherished privileges. Through the years, on top of their usual fat share of their tenants' crops, landlords have been accustomed to take "gifts" from their peasants of "cattle, lambs, chickens, eggs, marriage dues, fines for quarreling, and presents...
...reciprocated by sending Princess Margaret to B.C. to grace the celebrations with her charm. All of this is part of Canada's biggest birthday party: British Columbia is 100 years old, celebrating the day in 1858 when Queen Victoria, who had scarcely heard of the place, designated the land a crown colony and sent it down the road to union with Canada...