Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dictator Fulgencio Batista is a shrewd politician who knows when to give an inch to save the ruler. For two months he blocked a congressional move to grant amnesty to political prisoners and exiles, even though the mood of the country was clearly in favor of it. Last week Batista gave in gracefully, told his majorities in Congress to push through a sweeping amnesty bill...
...inspire one of Edward Lear's famous limericks, it was only because Lear never heard of him. To this day little is known about this Moslem kingdom, the size of Nebraska, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful of army coups in nearby...
...cement. Chiang's Kuomintang tried to provide it. Slowly, while tirelessly expounding Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, Chiang forged his own philosophy of rule. Deeply imbued with Confucian thought, it was a theory based on precept, on the loyalty of subject to ruler, of son to father. "If the ruler is virtuous, the people will also be virtuous," Confucius taught...
...were drawn up in huge circles like the covered wagons of American pioneers. Over their wagons flew tattered Rajput sun flags (symbolizing the god Rama) and banners reading, "Hail Emperor Nehru." Few of the tribesmen had ever heard of Prime Minister Nehru, but they knew that a great badshah (ruler) had offered to succor them at Chitor, a place they had always avoided in their wanderings...
...most prevalent type of Louisiana B.M.O.C. is undoubtedly the ruler of the Student Government, the central control for dances and such. His technique of gaining control is well documented by the recent elections at Southeastern College in Hammond, La. "Specks" (a catchy name for vote winning) had hundreds of signs and elever gimmicks like a clock that said "Time to vote..." He even had an imitation rock pile that read "Rockalong with Specks." Within ten minutes after the display mysteriously burned down a new sign announced "Keep it clean, boys--'Specks...