Word: primed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...adoring masses of Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah is "Showboy," and Guineans pay tribute to the strength of their President Sekou Toure by calling him "Elephant." But on the Ivory Coast (which lies between Ghana and Guinea, and wants no part of their merger), crowds have tagged their own strongman with the simple name of "Vive." The name could not be more apt: few men in the kaleidoscopic politics of French Africa have shown a greater talent for survival than 53-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny...
False Position. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who had been telling U.S. audiences that he flatly opposed Caribbean filibusters, knew all about the Panamanian plot, but was caught aback as the Arias-Fonteyn flop placed Panama in a spotlight of world attention. He ordered his brother, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, to come to Houston for a private talk. The Castros sent a pair of their bearded officers to Panama to persuade the invaders to withdraw...
With a $3,000,000 Cubana airlines jet-prop Britannia at his disposal, Prime Minister Fidel Castro was the Western Hemisphere's happiest tourist last week, speeding from Montreal to Houston to Brasilia to Buenos Aires. "This one day I spent in Montreal," said Castro, "has impressed me more than all the time I spent in the U.S. There is a Latin atmosphere." In Houston, he accepted a blue-blooded quarter horse, gave permission to Oilman Frank Waters to make a movie about the revolution. "To do justice to a story so powerful," said Waters, "I have hired...
Insiders explained why the Prime Minister had time for all the world but Cuba: after telling U.S. audiences that Communists had "no influence," Castro did not want to risk embarrassment by a big Red show at last week's labor-sponsored...
...Executions, a prime instrument of terror, went on. Schoolteacher Olga Herrera Marcos, charged with squealing on rebels, may become the first woman "war criminal" to face a firing squad. Her death sentence has been appealed. Four former soldiers, sentenced to prison terms by the trial court, were sentenced to death upon "appeal" by the government. Death toll...