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Word: ministere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the Belgian Congo, young King Baudouin arrived on a hastily planned flight from Brussels to see for himself what could be salvaged from Belgium's tattered colonial policy. Until last week Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Understanding. Anxious to place the blame elsewhere, the Union's Minister for External Affairs Eric Louw declared that he had warned the U.N. all along that "incitement among nonwhites would give rise to disorder." And just to make sure that the outside world would not be so misguided in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Unhappy Mandate | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Castro knew that he was on shaky ground. When Matos arrived for the trial at a movie theater at Havana's Camp Liberty, a crowd of rebel soldiers sent up an impromptu cheer-and were seized and hauled off to have their beards shaved for their impertinence. On the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Hero's Trial | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

The pinch is that from this position of strength the military demands disproportionately costly and often unsuitable tools for the job. Brazil has spent $2 billion on its armed forces in the past six years v. $1.6 billion for all public works and development programs. The refurbished carrier Minas Gerais...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS FOR SOLDIERS: Latin America's Biggest Waste | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Waste and graft are high. After Peru contracted to buy four submarines from the U.S.'s General Dynamics Corp, word leaked out that the nephew of the navy minister who ordered the subs stood to collect a $300,000 "commission." The latest scandal brewing is in Cuba, where Fidel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS FOR SOLDIERS: Latin America's Biggest Waste | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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