Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice, 20-54 is peacefully implemented not in the courts but in the local marriage-license bureaus. A test case arose in 1953, however, in which a white woman petitioned the courts in Portsmouth, Va. to annul her marriage to her Chinese sailor husband of 15 months...
Wybot's mission was official admission of what has long been recognized privately in Morocco-that French counterterrorists are operating with the indulgence and sometimes cooperation of the local French police. Counter-terrorism began about nine months ago soon after the arrival of gentle Francis Lacoste to succeed General Augustin Guillaume as Resident General. To suspicious French colons, Lacoste, after hard-boiled General Guillaume, smelled of negotiation and compromise, and they denounced the national government's policy as "treason." Clandestine French organizations sprang up, calling themselves "The White Hand," and "Agir" (to act). They were manned by hired...
...call from a friendly top French official. "Don't let them in," he warned. "Once they get the layout, they won't miss again." Now Clostermann goes about armed. In nine months French counterterrorists have committed more than 80 murders. In nine months the sympathetic local police have not made a single arrest...
...Singapore, bastion of British strength in Southeast Asia, the Communists at last felt strong enough to attack in the open. For months they had worked to infiltrate the local Chinese, who make up 80% of the city's 1,200,000 population. They wormed their way into control of unions, and organized a handy riot squad of 3,000 students (whose schools, say wags, now teach "reading, rioting and 'rithmetic"). To pay their way, they shook down wealthy Chinese merchants, those shrewd barometers of "who's ahead," who have become convinced that Red Peking...
...truckers' delegation hammered out 63 contracts, one by one. Last week they were all signed. The settlement: long-line drivers, who now earn an average $2.14, won 8? an hour more this year, 8? more next year, and 7? in 1957; to an average $2 scale, local drivers added 10? an hour this year,10? next year, 9? in 1957. For pensions the truckers agreed to contribute $8.65 monthly...