Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly's agenda includes: ¶ Election of a new Assembly president. ¶ Election of the U.N. secretary general. Trygve Lie is likely to be reelected. ¶ Nationalist China's charges that Russia aggressively aided the Chinese Communists in their revolt against Chiang Kaishek. This may raise the issue of Formosa's present status. In the Security Council, Warren Austin has already requested an investigation of Communist charges that the U.S. has invaded Formosa...
...occupation of parts of a state which has a 75% Moslem population. The presence of Indian troops was justified in the pandit's eyes because in 1947 the now-Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir, since stripped of his power, had called in the Indian army to put down a revolt of his Moslem subjects. Nehru blamed Kashmir's current troubles on the unofficial invasion of Pakistan army units, which had gone in to help the Moslem rebels and which still hold the northern and western sections of the state. As a result, Nehru argued, India would be "appeasing...
...line brokers who scoffed at his $500,000-a-year advertising budget, sniped at his $100,000-a-year salary. As late as last November, a group of floor traders tried to cut down his authority, give some of his powers back to Exchange-member committees. Schram quelled the revolt by pointing out that it was just this "old, discredited committee system" which had given Wall Street its bad name. A month later, 56-year-old Emil Schram was struck down by a heart attack...
...ANTI-RED REVOLT SWEEPS MOSCOW, STALIN, TOP AIDES SLAIN
...ruler of West Borneo took his setback with apparent calm. He remained calm as the new central government quickly set about gobbling up its member states, wiping out the federal system he had sponsored. During the January revolt of former Dutch Captain "Turk" Westerling, the Sultan of West Borneo appeared to be completely loyal to the government, continued to attend cabinet meetings and make the rounds of official parties...