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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grave Situation. "It's real war here in Samneua," reported Laos' commander in the north, French-trained, 39-year-old Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong, to a TIME correspondent visiting the general's headquarters in the provincial capital of Samneua town, deep in a mountain valley not far from the fighting. "I've been losing men daily. My head is just about bursting. I've sent telegram after telegram to the Ministry of Defense explaining the gravity of this situation. I've not had any reply yet. I have asked Vientiane repeatedly...
...West Bengal. Starving mobs have halted freight trains and looted the cars of food. Confidently using the tactics employed against them in Kerala, the Reds fired off a 53-page "charge sheet" against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister Dr. B. C. Roy, the 77-year-old leader of the local Congress Party, accusing his regime of corruption, misrule, nepotism and graft -much of it true. A "Famine Resistance Committee" drew up plans for mass defiance of the law and set August 20 as the trysting...
...flourishing economy. The federation produces almost a third of the world's natural rubber and tin; its per capita income ($350) is the highest in Asia, and it boasts one telephone for every 100 persons (U.S. ratio: one for every 2½). With the ten-year-old Communist insurrection spluttering into oblivion in the northern jungles and with the nation's rice crop the largest in its history, voters swarmed to the polls last week on foot, and by car, boat, pedicab and elephant. The result: a landslide victory for Tengku Abdul Rahman, whose Alliance Party captured...
...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-old Masami Fukushi plunged off the shelf and sprinted out into deep water toward a rock 50 yards away, his younger brothers, Masakatsu, 12, Takeshi, 10, and Takeaki. 9, quickly gave chase...
Batista kept hoping against hope for permanent residence in Daytona Beach, Fla., where he has a wife and five children, a $100,000 mansion and extensive investments in real estate. Batista's 11-year-old son sent a telegram to President Eisenhower, and Batista's wife followed through with a tearful letter to Mamie: "In the moment of my sadness, shall I have you to help me? Dear lady, do your best." But, according to Batista's Washington lawyers, the best that the State Department offered was to "help get Batista anywhere else, if it could avoid...