Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment of truth for the Geneva conference came in a "secret session" held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find...
...ruined politically by being Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez invasion, and by his disingenuous attempts to justify Suez afterward. For a long time, it was said, Harold Macmillan only kept him on as a sop to the militant Suez rebels on the Tory backbenches. But of late; Lloyd's competent diplomatic performance at Geneva had helped soften the memory of his uninspired speeches in Commons...
Bitter Medicine. The time for drastic remedies had come. Last week Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres, in a midnight four-hour speech to late-hour Barcelona businessmen, outlined a stern stabilization plan, obviously approved by Franco, that was almost exactly what foreign economists have been trying to force upon Spain for the past ten years. Its proposals...
Charging that many of the top officials of the old government encouraged his smuggling, Kassim told how once the late Governor General Ghulam Mohammed had ordered him to treat "as his own brothers" three Arabs whom he asked Kassim to assist in smuggling into Karachi two shipments of gold. Kassim also incriminated associates of former President Iskander Mirza and ex-Prime Ministers Noon and Suhrawardy, as well as 18 top Karachi police and customs officials. No matter which politicians were in power, he said, their henchmen demanded payoffs, and when he tried to quit the rackets they would...
...rebellion was aimed not only at the Somoza brothers, but also at the shade of their late father. Dictator Anastasio Somoza. By torturing, killing or exiling his opponents. ''Tacho" Somoza ran Nicaragua 20 years, stacked up an estimated $60 million in cash and property. When Tacho was cut down by an assassin's bullets 2½ years ago. Luis got himself elected in his father's place. While brother Tachito tried to keep the country quiet under the heavy thumb of the national guard, U.S.-educated (Universities of California. Maryland and Louisiana State) President Luis tried...