Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It is standard operating procedure in Southeast Asia for a nation to win independence, fall into economic and political chaos and, finally, take desperate refuge in military rule that is usually efficient and honest but still dictatorship. Last week, after two years of freedom, the Federation of Malaya was proving...
Soon Bretons became convinced that this path was the way of penitence; tradition demanded that they follow it in pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime or else be obliged to do so after death, advancing only one coffin-length each year. In the 10th century, Benedictine monks built a...
"The harshness of absolute regimes," said an Italian lawyer last week, "was mitigated in two ways. One was regicide. The other was amnesty-the sovereign's gift of grace. We still have amnesty-so, for the next six months, don't leave your car unattended, and keep your...
D-day for the plot was originally set for the last week in July. But last month, former Dictator Juan Peron, exiled in the Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal...
Though only 30,000 strong (among a French Saharan population of 840,000), the Mozabites occupy a crucial area, so rich is it in oil. The descendants of a persecuted splinter group of Moslems that took refuge in their present inaccessible home back in the Middle Ages, they do not...