Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For six years Burma was so neutral that it would take foreign aid grants from no one. In a surprising policy switch last month, the Government decided to take aid neutrally from all corners-and started off with a four-year pledge of $37 million from the U.S. for road...
Fearlessly at home in the water, the way a fisherman's sons often are, the Fukushi brothers splashed about last week in the protective shallows breaking over the narrow shale shelf of their little beach on Okujiri Island, ten miles off Hokkaido's southwestern shore. When 14-year...
Welcome nowhere in the Western Hemisphere, ousted Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar chartered a plane in the Dominican Republic one day last week and droned off to exile on the faraway Portuguese island of Madeira, a land full of terraced vineyards and empty of revolutionary ferment. "Too bad." grumped...
"In granting asylum to ex-President Batista in the quiet and isolated island of Madeira." said Portugal, "the government has been moved solely by its earnest desire to assist the parties more directly concerned to maintain peace in a vital area of the world." At the Lisbon airport, cops threw...
Duvalier had overreached himself; as the Vatican hinted at automatic excommunication and Catholic Haiti throbbed with unrest, the President backed off. At week's end the regime announced "the arrest is halted'' but blustered that "the President will not permit anyone to discredit the government."