Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urge to turn back the clock is as strong among revolutionaries as reactionaries. Saddled wih the chaos and corruption of 14 years of freedom, many Indonesians yearn for the good old days of 1945, when life was violent but simple and all that had to be done was win independence from the Dutch...
After five years in power, President Nasser was setting out to create some sort of popular basis for his government. With his soldierly suspicion of all old-style politicians, he had decided to begin at the bottom. In last week's balloting Egyptians and Syrians elected 39,364 local councillors. These councillors would become members of Nasser's National Union, which, he insisted, is "not a single-party system but the framework within which the revolution now beginning will take place." Local councillors will choose provincial councillors, who in turn will elect a General Council for the whole...
...Egypt itself, Nasser long ago eliminated old-line political parties. But in his northern province of Syria, which he took over in 1958, there were still the powerful Baath socialists, who, though nominally outlawed like all parties, have been rewarded with five of 16 seats in the Syrian regional Cabinet for helping to put over the merger of the two countries. Last week, between the maneuverings of Nasser and the ganging up of landowners, businessmen and Moslem elders, who banded together in a conservative front, the Baath socialists lost control of Syria. Over both provinces Gamal Abdel Nasser reigned supreme...
...Old & Tired. In his exile at Mussoorie in northeast India, Tibet's rightful ruler, the Dalai Lama, declared that "wherever I am accompanied by my ministers, the people of Tibet look upon us as their government." His mild statement of sovereignty was attacked not by the Red Chinese but by his Indian hosts. Nehru's government sharply pointed out that there was no question of a Tibetan government-in-exile "under the Dalai Lama functioning in India," and seemed to concede that Tibet is an internal affair of Red China. Sounding both old and tired...
...Under a sun that bears down like a torch, the guajiros, poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched hut, a cow and a pig. "I am going to register for more land." Chimes in Bootblack Ruiz Marino Arganza, 16: "Everybody for Fidel...