Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reassuring Smiles. When such facts were raised last week, the Laotian visitors only smiled reassuringly. Bidding for continued U.S. financial aid, Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma, accompanying his ruler, said: "The best remedy is time and patience. Certainly Laos is lost if the Western signatories wash their hands of us and drop us coldly . . . We don't believe our friends will drop us ... One must not despair of the situation so quickly . . . You must understand that in our country the politicians have insufficient maturity of spirit and often have personal ambitions. You must see things as a whole...
...Hammer. Crushing rebellions the papacy stirred up, Frederick earned another nickname-il Martello del Hondo (hammer of the world); but at last the machinery of his rule, having been sabotaged and repaired too many times, no longer functioned. When he died (in bed -a triumph for a ruler of those times), Italy and the Empire were in chaos. And, lacking another emperor of Frederick's energy, in chaos they remained...
...head man of the Teamsters union. Jimmy Hoffa is an absolute but generous ruler, firm in the conviction that there is money enough in the Teamster till for every loyal lieutenant. Last week Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 45, burly Hoffa protégé and chief of Union City, N.J., local 560, reached in for an even larger share than the boss takes...
...Spanish general and 20,000 soldiers-most of whom were butchered on the spot. In the next four years, Krim repeatedly whipped the Spaniards and nearly drove them into the sea. When Krim declared the independence of the Riff and named himself sultan, Spain set up a puppet ruler of its own, the redoubtable Moroccan bandit Raisuli.* Krim promptly scattered another Spanish army, seized Raisuli and shut him up in a cave with his harem until he died...
...Blow to Progress." Thus last week died the man who was ruler of a postage-stamp-sized republic (75 by 340 miles) on the sweltering West African coast. Chief architect of Togo's 1960 independence from French control, London-educated Olympio practiced stern austerity at home, rejected demagoguery, and sided openly with the West. President Kennedy, whom Olympio visited in Washington last March, mourned his death as "a blow to the progress of stable government in Africa...