Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Authority & Oil. By week's end the fighting between Moroccan nationalists and Spanish colonial forces had spread south to the Spanish Sahara. Moroccan newspapers reported nationalist attacks on a village at the mouth of the Saguia el Hamra (Red River) and Spanish bombing raids on the inland villages of Smara and Sidi Ahmed el Aroussi; more than 200 Moroccans were reported killed...
Scarcely had Bourguiba opened his mouth when Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser-bent, as ever, on bolstering his claim to leadership of the Arab world -stepped in and offered Tunisia a shipload of guns. So did Communist Czechoslovakia. (The Western guess was that the arms offered by Nasser would come from Czechoslovakia, too.) Bourguiba accepted the Egyptian offer, but continued to make it clear that he would rather be supplied by the West. Bourguiba is one of the West's staunchest friends in the Arab world. To the U.S. State Department the alternatives seemed clear: either...
...responsibility for defending the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middie East, the British were adapting their strategic posture to their reduced military requirements and their straitened economic circumstances. By next April the headquarters of Middle Eastern defense will be moved from Cyprus 1,700 miles south to Aden, near the mouth of the Red Sea. But, to escape Aden's 120° heat, several thousand troops of a mobile "strategic reserve" will be quartered in cool Kenya...
Trailed by the customary pack of newshounds, Harry Truman scurried about Manhattan on an early-morning constitutional. His conversation also ranged far and wide, included a sermonette on the hazards of jaywalking. Scarcely was this out of his mouth when, crossing a street with the green light in his favor, Truman almost got mowed down by a car rushing a semaphore. The reporters yelled at the driver, but Harry was too involved in his street lecture to notice the close shave...
AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION will be speeded by $3 billion Inga hydroelectric project, the world's biggest, to start building soon near mouth of the Congo River. Complex of dams and power stations will generate 200 billion kw-h a year-about twelve times the output of Grand Coulee Dam -for power-short central Africa. Belgium figures project will attract $15 billion to $20 billion in Congo industrial investment...