Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the retreating colonial powers, the French have clung longest to the savage techniques of imperialism's unhappy past. In 1945, when Algerians killed some 100 French in a local uprising in the Constantine area, the French retaliated by bombing and strafing towns, killed some 20,000 Algerians before calling a halt; in 1946 French warships and artillery bombarded Haiphong, killing some 10,000 Vietnamese; in 1947 the French wiped out entire villages in putting down a revolt in Madagascar, killing some 40,000 men, women and children...
Meeting at The Hague last week, Premiers of the three nations looked back on eleven years' experience of union, and found it good. Lowered trade barriers had not brought ruinous competition for small local industries, but expansion. Trade among the three countries has trebled in a decade (to $1,100,000,000 in 1956), while trade with other countries doubled...
Luxuriating in one of the little freedoms that distinguish Gomulka's Poland from other Communist countries, some 15.5 million Poles last week pondered voting lists with real choices, walked into polling stations that afforded real privacy, marked ballots with decision. The elections were for local councils across the nation, and admittedly the lists favored candidates of the regime-dominated National Front; voters who chose not to mark their ballots voted automatically for the National Front's men whose names appeared at the top on all lists. Still the right to scratch a name existed...
...usual, vodka sales were banned on election day and, dressed in Sunday best, most voters went straight from Mass to the apartment houses, factories, country shops or town halls where dignified local polling officials kept potbellied stoves stoked against the biting cold. Parents came to vote with small children wrapped in sheepskin kozuchy. Nuns with stiff white headpieces stood in lines with mustachioed peasants and smartly uniformed army officers. One elderly woman arrived to vote with a goose on a leash...
...deputies, who can spot a suspicious stranger instantly. To buttress their memories, the detectives use tiny cameras to snap hundreds of pictures of passers-by for comparison at Bradford's frequent briefings. The fleet of patrol cars is linked by shortwave radio to the Ambassador headquarters and to local police networks. Ramfis is accompanied constantly by two Dominican officers, and all three are armed; even the houseboy in Leavenworth packs a .32 pistol. There has been one big scare so far: a man waiting outside the hotel with a shotgun (he was carefully watched, turned...