Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began unprecedented weekly talks to the worshipers in Taiz's ancient Muzaffariya mosque, paid a surprise visit to an army barracks and ordered a 25% pay raise and free medical care for all soldiers. But before Badr could say "Reform," disgruntled troops mutinied in Sana, declaring that the local governor had pocketed the payroll. In a surprising show of initiative, Badr rushed to Sana, fired the governor, the army commander and the police chief, and executed nine officers...
...Encores. Fortnight ago in Taiz, a local judge dissolved the marriage of a soldier on complaint of his wife. The soldier was so angry that afterward he ran after the judge's car. Flustered, the judge ran him down. The dead soldier's comrades chased the judge to his home and began shooting it up. Surrendering to save his family, the judge was killed on the spot, and then, in that favorite democratic ritual in the Middle East, his body was dragged through the streets. In the excitement, civil control collapsed and the army last week took over...
There were other Communist setbacks too. An army unit now guards the studios of Radio Baghdad; when Communists tried to organize a "local policing committee" to monitor radio broadcasts, the army commander broke up the meeting. In the countryside, Communists tried to take over Kassem's land-reform scheme through the recently formed National Federation of Peasants' Associations. Fifty farmers decided to take their complaints to the Premier himself, marched into Baghdad carrying a large portrait of Kassem and a long list of anti-Communist complaints, including the fact that the Communist president of the National Federation...
...Resign! Resign!" the pickets had demanded of the Communist government of Kerala, India's only Red-ruled state. Kerala's Communist Chief Minister, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, refused even to consider the demands from local Socialist, Moslem and Congress Party groups. Equally implacably, he continued to enforce a law tightening his government's control of private schools-a measure that had driven Kerala's numerous Roman Catholics and Hindu Nairs to league against him. In the first eight days of Gandhi-style, "nonviolent" demonstrations against the Reds, Namboodiripad's police three times fired into crowds, killed twelve...
...first was to promise elections this year of village panchayats (councils) to take over local police, judicial and administrative duties. Once the panchayats are functioning, work will begin on a new constitution. By starting at the bottom, Sandhurst-trained Strongman Khan hopes to build democracy slowly, from the bottom up, so as to avoid reinstating the corrupt...