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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prisoners call it, is passed out to them each morning just a half hour after the day shift comes on to relieve the nighttime guards. That morning there were no guards to pass it out. In a fine display of solidarity, backed by the nation's three main labor federations, the guards at Sante had decided to go on strike for higher...
...raid was no ordinary police crackdown, but a carefully planned piece of political strategy. The man behind it: War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott, who staged 1955's famed "preventive coup" to ensure constitutional government, but who lately has been showing increasing annoyance at parliamentary foibles. The main target of General Lett's ire is the opposition National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), of which Tenorio is a prominent member. The U.D.N. deputies have taken advantage of congressional immunity to insult high army brass in speeches; allied with other blocs in Congress, they have also sabotaged President Juscelino Kubitschek...
...action Arnold took was to establish a pacifist family-centered community, as accessible to the world as possible, but living like ist century Christians, with all property held in common, and unanimity in all decisions. In 1920 Arnold launched the first Brothers community at Sannerz, near Frankfurt-am-Main...
...develop now that it is losing Trincomalee in Ceylon, has direct communications with the Persian Gulf, without permission of Nasser. Finally, now that the Mau Mau are quelled, the Kenya natives are friendlier than the population in Cyprus. Accordingly, Sandys returned last month convinced that Britain's main Middle East base should be moved south from Cyprus to Kenya, and Cyprus kept only as a bomber base in event of war with Russia...
...population increasing at the rate of 12 million annually." Ignoring Karl Marx's faith in population increase, the government has embarked on a drastic birth-control program that will soon include free abortions and sterilization. The crux of the problem, Kinmond emphasizes, is that China's "main source of foreign credit" for heavy industrial equipment is the export of foodstuffs. "If, as in 1954, there is a poor crop, then China's industrialization falters or its forward march is maintained only by snatching the very food from the mouths of 630 million people, about two-thirds...