Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...fanatical Arab nationalist, Aref campaigned from the early days of the revolution for speedy union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. Kassem, a lean, brooding soldier with no political experience, wanted to keep Iraq independent of Cairo, and to fight off the Arab nationalist pressures made common cause with the Communists, who now control the street mobs of Baghdad. The two "brothers" fought, and Aref found himself accused of conspiring against the state and of trying to assassinate Kassem...
...government. On one hand, a pair of responsible moderates, President Manuel Urrutia and Premier Jose Miró Cardona, struggled with the nation's immediate problems, notably restless labor. On the other, Fidel Castro (who hand-picked Urrutia and Miró Cardona) moved uncoordinatedly toward a nationalist, leftist social program...
...political reasons, the unbeaten U.S.S.R. team refused to play Nationalist China at the world basketball championships in Santiago. Chile, thereby forfeited its claim to the title. Brazil was declared champion, with a second-rate U.S. Air Force team runner-up. ¶ For the third straight year, World Champions David Jenkins, 22, and Carol Heiss. 19, skated rings around the opposition, scored victories in the national senior figure skating championships at Rochester...
Englishman, Go Now! The tension began when Dr. Hastings Banda, the fanatic Nyasaland physician whose cry is "To hell with federation!" (TIME, Jan. 5), stopped over in Salisbury. As part of its new get-tough policy against nationalist agitators, Southern Rhodesia classified him as a "prohibited immigrant" and sent him on his way. As usual, Dr. Banda made political hay of it ("I am the bad boy. I went to Southern Rhodesia and spoiled their 'natives' for them"), but other African nationalists did not leave it at that. At a mass meeting in Salisbury, the fiery young general...