Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination two weeks ago on the road from Béit Meri and was irate at the rebels' continued holdout, tendered his resignation, but President Chamoun refused it. Puffing worriedly on a hubble-bubble water pipe, Solh told newsmen that he could have been butchered as was Iraq's Nuri asSaid "if the American forces had been 24 hours late." He went on: "The rebels, who had massed fresh forces and ammunition from Syria, were to launch a big attack shortly after the Iraqi coup...
Sussex Gardens. The sigh was echoed in Britain, where Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was weekending in the gardens of his Sussex home. The idea struck him that this might be the time for a personal visit to Athens and Ankara in the hope that one quick, bold move, at a time when both sides were weary and fearful, might finally clear up the bloody mess on Cyprus. For six weeks an apparent softening had been noticeable in the Greek position, a willingness to explore a settlement that would not insist on the future rights of enosis, i.e., the union...
...fixing the U.S. position on such questions as where the proposed U.N. summit conference should be held, what nations should take part, and what the procedures should be, the U.S. has to heed any U.N. member with strong opinions on these points-and opinions abound in the U.N. Example: Prime Minister Nehru, as India's Delegate Arthur Lall reminded the U.S.'s U.N. delegation last week, wants to be invited to the conference, and to take part as a great power in any separate meetings of a Big Four, Five or Six. But, as Secretary Dulles pointed...
Although John Foster Dulles was the prime mover in planning the Middle East's "Northern Tier" grouping of anti-Communist states back in 1953, the U.S. has never joined the Baghdad Pact. When Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes last year asked why, President Eisenhower reportedly replied that if the U.S. had moved to join, Israel would have asked similar guarantees and the U.S. would have had to refuse them, thus provoking pro-Israeli pressures in the U.S. and blocking Senate ratification of the treaty. At last week's meeting of Baghdad powers in London, Secretary Dulles announced...
CHEAPER STEAKS are coming. Prime beef prices have dipped to year's low of 28¾? in Chicago, off a dime from high of last March...