Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Franco himself was talking a more relaxed line. In an interview with a Mexican correspondent, he dismissed the economic problem as just another of Spain's ''small crises of growth, which require adjustment measures but do not alter the progressive march of the nation...
...fields we are deteriorating and deteriorating continuously," complained Indonesia's President Sukarno to his Constituent Assembly. For three years the wrangling assemblymen had been trying to draw up a new constitution for the rebellion-plagued nation of 87 million. Now Sukarno urged them to vote in his old constitution of 1945, embodying the famed "guided democracy" that would give Sukarno virtually dictatorial power. "God willing," he cried, "let us carry out the socialist reconstruction of Indonesia and hurl liberalism and capitalism as far away as possible...
...week's end junketing Sukarno reached Japan in his chartered Pan Am plane, celebrating his 58th birthday aboard. Before returning to his racked island nation, he intends to visit North Viet Nam and Cambodia. A spokesman for Sukarno said airily: "If it were a critical situation in Indonesia, the President would have stayed home...
...internal free-for-all that followed Pakistan's birth as a nation, Kassim and Abdullah Bhatti, sons of two fisherman brothers, built up a gold-smuggling empire so vast that prices on the Karachi bullion exchange fluctuated whenever the Bhattis brought in a shipment. Commanding a fleet of twelve ships that rendezvoused with contraband-carrying vessels in the Arabian Sea, and using new Chevrolets that easily outran customs officials' Jeeps on Pakistan's unpaved roads, the first cousins became rich men about town. Paunchy Kassim acquired a winning stable of 17 race horses and a taste...
Citation: "'Leader of the new Negro,' whose approach to controversial problems has been with determination but without anger, whose role in this nation has become a world symbol...