Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rostrum of the Chamber of Representatives, Van Hemelrijck carefully explained himself. As long as the three leaders remained in prison they were a threat to the peace. "Tension still runs high," he said. "Wildcat strikes and the refusal to pay taxes are explained by the people as a resistance movement against the arrest of these men. Their pictures are everywhere in the native towns." The three Africans, he added, had agreed to come to Belgium in a state of "provisional freedom." As for discussing independence, "they may have their say," but in no way were they official negotiators...
...strategy paid off. Alaska's victory softened almost all further opposition; even Sam Rayburn, long opposed to Hawaiian statehood, decided to go along. And even Virginia's stubborn Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith had seen the handwriting on the bill, decided that he could not prevent its movement to the floor (TIME, March 16). Added to that was the momentum of the Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Arkansas' John...
Last week, in special trains from Baghdad and in buses from the countryside, thousands of Kassem's supporters, members of the Communist-led "Peace Partisans" movement, converged on Mosul (pop. 200,000), near the ancient Biblical city of Nineveh. Seeing them, the local army commander, stocky, swarthy Colonel Abdel Wahab Shawaf, 40, member of a prominent Iraqi family (his brother is Kassem's Minister of Health) and himself an ardent Arab nationalist, began to fret. After last July's revolution Shawaf had proclaimed: "Naturally, Iraq will become part of the Arab Union." That was not Kassem...
...nationalist movement is the most important single fact in Africa today," says Rockefeller. "But whether a government is managed from the outside or is a local government is not the determining factor in an enterprise's success. Its stability and its attitude toward private enterprise is the important thing." Rockefeller concedes that his firm is taking a risk, "just as there is a risk anywhere you go." It is a risk the Rockefeller family is prepared to take. The Rockefellers, on their own, are putting $250,000 into several pilot projects in new African nations, have set up offices...
...expires late this month, India moved toward granting a near monopoly on the supply of foreign news. Agence France Presse got shut out when its Indian outlet, the independent United Press of India (no kin to United Press International), founded in the 1930s by leaders of the Congress freedom movement, collapsed last fall. United Press International, seeking a contract to supply Ramanath Goenka's chain, has been pointedly discouraged by the government...