Word: moved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also radically curtailed one of the most popular freedoms of his administration-foreign travel-by invalidating all current exit visas and passports. That move will undoubtedly make leaving the country difficult for all but officials, but it may also discourage the thousands of Czechoslovaks now abroad from ever going home...
...most startling move was permitting Dr. Mario Soares to return from exile. A lawyer and left-wing democrat, Soares was so persistent a foe of Dictator Salazar that he was jailed twelve times, mostly without trial or charges. His wife, Maria Barroso, one of Portugal's finest actresses, was dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen...
Respectful Question. At government insistence, Soares' return was almost stealthy. At first, not a word appeared in press or radio, and his every move in Lisbon was under police surveillance. Soares himself had little to say, except: "I am planning now to resume fully my professional and political activities, but legally. You know my position: I have always worked within...
...high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training camp of Al Fatah, the largest fedayeen group, killing nine men, its leaders alerted 7,000 armed fedayeen to stand by to move in on Amman...
Rule or Burn. The move never came, but neither did Hussein's expected crack down. Instead, the king and the fedayeen leaders had a tense and angry showdown in a two-hour meeting in Amman's military headquarters. Hussein, wearing the uniform of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, angrily opened the meeting: "If I don't rule this country, then I shall burn it." In reply, the fedayeen leaders pointedly reminded the king of their own strength...