Word: muching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep the blacks in their place. A few miles outside Windhoek, the government is completing a $5,000,000 "location" for the capital's 16,000 blacks. Though the austere new houses are quite an improvement over the old tin shanties, they not only cost eleven times as much to rent, for people whose pay ranges from $3 to $10 a month, but are regarded by the blacks as nothing more than one more ignominious step toward complete apartheid. When the mandate's administrator flatly refused even to receive a delegation from the location, the voteless blacks turned...
...National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past the Defense Ministry in a five-hour parade celebrating Kassem's recovery. Obviously much more wary of assassination than before, Kassem kept well away from the crowds as he appeared briefly on a platform to answer cheers. But if he needed reassurance that non-Communist support for him exists in his dispirited country if he invokes it, the marching farmers provided...
...once H.M.S. Vengeance) will cost $36 million, enough to pave 3,900 miles of highway-and Brazil has no naval air arm to put aboard her. Argentina has spent $1 billion on defense since 1954. "Every time Ecuador buys armaments," notes Peruvian Foreign Minister Raul Porras, "we buy as much or more"; yet General Antonio Luna Ferreccio retorts for the brass: "Peru cannot be more disarmed...
...attack. But when Quasimodo, 58, took Liliana to Stockholm with him earlier this month for the Nobel ceremonies, Maria, 44, apparently viewed it as the last straw. Last week, taking a short recess from her dancing school, she was threatening a legal separation (Italy doesn't go in much for divorce...
Having cleared the air, the college representatives recommended to the Secretary of the Air Force that he set up an advisory panel of educators to resolve a much needed new mission for A.F.R.O.T.C...