Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Our Man in Geneva. The experience was something like watching the cold war in quick time; in Khrushchev's dialogue, threats followed thaws in a matter of seconds instead of weeks. Now burbling toasts to peace, now bellowing belligerently, Khrushchev made no secret of his cynical contempt for the...
Without the slightest air of suspense, the hand-picked candidate -of Konrad Adenauer was elected President of West Germany last week. He is Heinrich Liibke, 64, Adenauer's obscure Minister of Agriculture, who when apprised of his nomination last month said: "I don't think I am cut...
The arrival of democracy last week in Nepal's capital of Katmandu had a Himalayan flavor all its own. After an endless, crowded tea party on the green lawn of the royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by...
King a prisoner. It was said that when a Rana had amassed a $30 million fortune as Prime Minister, he was expected to pass the job on to his nearest male relative. In 1951 the Ranas were overthrown with surprising ease, and the Kings of Nepal came into their own...
Enterprising King Mahendra and Prime Minister Koirala are agreed on the need to put their chaotic country to rights. Tawny-skinned and brown-eyed, with a thin face and frame like that of Frank Sinatra, Prime Minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was born at Banaras, India in 1914, where his articulate...