Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the first representatives of Her Majesty's government to appear in Egypt since 1957 descended on Cairo. In the final moments of bargaining, the British did not get quite all they hoped for. Knowing how much his own back-bench Tories hate Nasser, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had pressed hard to get Nasser first to release two Britons jailed as spies at the time of the Suez affair. In the end, Macmillan decided that he could not hold out for a side matter...
...ambitious attempt to come up with a universally acceptable set of "principles, institutions and procedures . . . to protect the individual from arbitrary government and to enable him to enjoy the dignity of man." Right at the start, the jurists' qualifications for this job were challenged by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, himself a onetime barrister-at-law of London's Inner Temple. India is bothered by the setting up of military dictatorships all over Southeast Asia; it is itself a democracy, but does not scruple on occasion to hold political prisoners without trial. Said Nehru...
...even independence, more quickly than it often thinks wise. But Britain turned back the clock last week on the island of Malta, site of the Royal Navy's main base in the Mediterranean. Unable to satisfy the voracious demands of the island's unpredictable, Oxford-educated former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff (who last year wanted to incorporate Malta into Britain itself, but now talks about making it a neutral port guaranteed by the U.N. Security Council), and unwilling to grant independence to the rock-bound island that must import nine times as much as it exports, the British...
...that point, Cuban Prime Minister Gonzalo Guell dropped in secretly on Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, got ready promises of a refuge for Batista and his cohorts. In fierce street fighting that killed 60, Guevara whipped a dispirited army garrison of 3,000 men and took Santa Clara (pop. 150,000), the rebels' first big city. A trainload of 150 troops sent by Batista refused even to get out of the railroad cars. Batista was through...
...trouble, from the networks' point of view, is that most of these gains benefit the independent stations, where advertisers can buy into shows that are both cheaper and more closely tailored to local markets than network programs. More and more affiliated stations hesitate to use network shows in prime time slots that can often be more profitably sold to local advertisers. To fight against this localitis, the networks are moving into 1959 with grand but contrasting schemes...