Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India's upcoming February election, the Maharani of Jaipur, 41, is running for a parliamentary seat from Rajasthan state, and not in the 14 years of Indian independence has there appeared a candidate with her aura and appeal: she is rich, beautiful, intelligent, and a first-rate politician...
Died. Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, 73, strongman Premier of Yugoslavia from 1935 to 1939, a brilliant economist turned politician who courted the Rome-Berlin Axis and strove vainly for dictatorship of his own nation until his exile in 1941; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...sole Progressive voice in the Assembly belongs to Economist Helen Suzman, 43, the wife of a Johannesburg heart specialist and mother of two grown daughters. A onetime United Party M.P. from suburban Johannesburg's sheerest silk stocking constituency. Politician Suzman broke away from the U.P. in 1959, will be the only member of the Assembly not committed to apartheid. "The difficulties of being alone in Parliament will be enormous," she says. "I won't even be able to move amendments as I shall have no seconder, but I shall do my best." She adds, perhaps too hopefully...
...Then fortnight ago. he cracked down on leaders of a strike, jailing them summarily along with dozens of others who had dared to criticize the government. To prison went the respected Dr. J.B. Danquah, Nkrumah's own mentor in the original independence movement, and young Joe Appiah, a politician who is married to the daughter of Britain's late Sir Stafford Cripps. Peggy Cripps Appiah was ordered to leave the country immediately; later the government backtracked, announced it merely wanted to pay her way back to England if she and her children wanted to leave...
Germany's unrelenting opposition of Russia might cause its own destruction. In such a case, Arnoni said, Adenauer could be considered "the most treacheous politician any nation has ever produced," when the ultimate consequences of his policies are recognized. "If I were a German," Arnoni stated, "I would prefer to see Adenauer assassinated" than see him destroy Germany...