Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1947, when India and Pakistan separated amid bloodshed that was exceeded in the 20th century only by the two World Wars, a border line was drawn through the Indus valley, and the water squabble began. Prime Minister Nehru protested that Pakistan demanded practically all the canal flow, while vast...
Though it has never been enforced, Article 90 of Cuba's constitution says that "large landholdings are proscribed," and "the acquisition and possession of land by foreign persons and companies shall be restrictively limited." Last week Prime Minister Fidel Castro enforced Article 90 with a vengeance. His agrarian-reform...
Is Canada about to bow out as a full partner in manning NATO's European shield? Until a few months ago, any such notion was inconceivable. Yet in the letdown after Ottawa's cancellation of the all-Canadian Avro Arrow jet interceptor -which the government used as the...
Norstad's argument was that what NATO's arsenal now needs is ground-attack fighters. He won no commitments. Asked later about a report that the government now hoped to postpone a decision on the chance that a summit conference might agree on some kind of European disengagement...
Died. Irakly Tsereteli, 77, leading Social Democrat who returned from Siberian exile at the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution, served as Minister of the Interior in Kerensky's provisional government until Lenin and the Bolsheviks ran him and all other moderates out of power; of cancer; in Manhattan...