Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rights. Every time the U.S. protested against treaty violations, said the State Department, the satellites pointed out that protests must be made "in concert" with the West's Russian allies. The Russians flatly refused to act in concert-or to act at all except in support of the local Reds. Huffed the State Department: "The U.S. Government reserves all its rights under the treaties...
...line were carefully moved back behind a Soviet "security belt." Some six divisions of the Red army moved up to protect the new border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway's labor government as full of "imperialist quislings...
Where the road widens slightly to make Akir's village square, Jewish children romped around a gnarled sycamore tree last week, playing a popular game, the local version of cowboys & Indians; it is called "Jews & Arabs." Watching them was an elderly Bulgarian Jew who was selling small balloons from a folding table. Fifty yards away was the two-story stone building where, in old days, Arab fellahin used to sit gossiping over Turkish coffee. Part of one wall of the Arab cafe lay in rubble. The cafe had been hit by an Israeli shell. On the undamaged section...
Having plenty of the vegetable but lacking cash (so they cannily said), the villagers threatened to pay their taxes in potatoes. Indignantly the local government posted notices that it would not receive potatoes. Sniffing a story, a newspaperman nosed in from nearby Limoges. As he stopped to photograph the potato notices he saw another poster: "Workers Wanted for the Uranium Fields...
Both pocket and standard billiards will be available for students. On the theory that Harvard and local men do not mix, especially in a pool hall, LaBreck is, for the time being, restricting his establishment to students. In the event of low attendance he will be forced to open to all comers...