Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teheran's Mosque of the Shah is getting to be no refuge for Premiers of Iran. In 1951, Premier Ali Razmara, one of Iran's ablest men, was assassinated there by a member of the fanatic Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam). Last week 72-year-old Hussein Ala...
From the Gettysburg post office, Ike will direct the affairs (though not the panoply) of state-but he will spend as much time alone on the farm as he can. There, aside from watchful Secret Service men, only Mamie, Master Sergeant John Moaney (Ike's valet) and Mrs. Moaney...
Anna survived. Passed from hand to Christian hand like hundreds of other scared and bewildered children, she found refuge at last with five maiden sisters named Van Moorst, all Roman Catholics, in the town of Hilversum. All through the war she was safe. But at war's end it...
The Communists did all the changing. In 1952 and 1953, Shanghai bore the brunt of Peking's bloody campaigns against "capitalists and counter-revolutionaries." The city's dog track was converted into an auditorium, its Great World gambling hall into a theater, its race course into a parade...
Fallen Dictator Juan Perón, taking the beaten track of most toppled Latin American strongmen, had asked the Buenos Aires embassy of neighboring Paraguay for asylum. Ambassador Juan Chaves escorted him to the 636-ton river gunboat Paraguay, and in that cramped refuge Juan Peron waited, his power to...