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Word: ministere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the 16 U.S. diplomats and their 16 dependents, life in Budapest is grey enough. They are often followed; their employees are often questioned and jailed. The Communist regime in Hungary is angered at the U.S. for steadfastly refusing to appoint a minister to the puppet regime, for trying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: 25-Mile Limit | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Verbal Contact. Prime Minister Koirala is articulately Western in thought (his favorite author: French Novelist Albert Camus) and has an informal ability to get things done that is rare in inefficient Nepal. A political opponent says: "He keeps his word; that's what counts most." The Prime Minister can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Democracy Comes at Midnight | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Sharing the vaguely socialist views of India's Nehru, but "with room for free-enterprise capitalism," the energetic Prime Minister recognizes Communists as his enemies at home and Red China as his enemy abroad; in typical Red "cartographic aggression," Chinese maps lay claim to large chunks of Nepal. Not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Democracy Comes at Midnight | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Confronted with any number of good causes to spend money on, appalled by the swift obsolescence of military hardware, even faintly hoping that a cold war thaw might resolve the question. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government delayed for months a $350 million decision: whether to replace the outmoded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Starfighters for NATO | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Last week France produced a startling reform: no more oral exams. Had Education Minister Andre Boulloche abolished schools he could not have provoked more happy whoops and shocked wails.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oral Surgery | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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