Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Restive Kurds. Although the coup was smashed, President Aref could be certain that more trouble lay ahead for the troubled regime. In Vienna last spring, a band of Baathist exiles met under the leadership of Brigadier Hardan Takriti, the former Baathist commander in chief of the Iraqi army, who this year was exiled to Europe as Iraq's Ambassador to Sweden. Vowed Takriti: "By the beard of the Prophet, I swear I will overthrow the traitor Aref...
Gibes from the Judge. Most cases are heard in People's Courts, which correspond roughly to American county or federal district courts. There, the judge is flanked by two "lay assessors" -workers from factories who are elected by their fellows for four weeks' court service. Theoretically, the workers compose the majority, but, in reality, Feifer found, the court is always dominated by the judge. He is no impartial umpire, as he is in the U.S. The Soviet judge is a protagonist, calling all the witnesses, asking most of the questions, and often browbeating the defendant...
Paper & Promises. Unfortunately, the people most concerned, the Yemenis themselves, have yet to be heard from. A hardy and hard-fighting race, with long memories for feuds and vendettas, it may take some talking before they will lay down their arms. Nasser can perhaps make the republicans do his bidding, even to dumping their ailing President, Abdullah Sallal, if necessary. But only the royalist princes, not Feisal alone, can dispose of Imam Badr. A possible compromise might lie in recognizing the Imam as a religious potentate without civil powers. But until the contending parties in Yemen reach agreement, the accord...
...lay: Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, 78, in a Rome hospital following his collapse from heat and fatigue during the Mass officially reopening the Vatican Council; New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 75, recuperating on Cape Cod following a prostate operation; Japan's Premier Hayato Ikeda, 64, undergoing treatment at the National Cancer Institute in To kyo for a nonmalignant throat infection; Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 72, recovering at his home in Dover from a torn te'ndon suffered in a fall at Boston's Logan Airport...
...Clock High, derived from the novel and movie of the same name, is about men who flew B-17s in World War II. Robert Lansing is the central figure-a flying general named Savage, who can spit 220 nails a minute. "I'm going to make you lay square eggs," he told one of his pilots last week. "I'm going to hand you a copilot who's all thumbs, a bombardier who can't hit his plate with his fork, a navigator who can't find his own feet...