Word: ruling
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Disarmament. Dulles restated the major package proposals of the U.S. and its allies in the six-month-long disarmament talks in London. These were 1) rule out surprise attacks by setting up air and ground inspection, 2) stop production of fissionable materials for weapons and gradually convert nuclear stockpiles to atoms for peace, 3) suspend nuclear tests for two years, 4) no war experiments to be conducted in space, 5) begin the reduction of conventional arms. Under such a disarmament system, said Dulles, "bad faith would be so vulnerable to detection that it would not become a profitable tactic even...
...first King to rule Norway as an independent monarch since the 14th century, Haakon (rhymes roughly with token) began life as Prince Carl, second son of the ruling house of Denmark, with little hope and even less desire of becoming a ruler. His elder brother Christian was destined to succeed his father on the Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain...
...that he was asked to practice democracy instead of demanding it, Nkrumah seemed a little less in favor of it. Faced with opposition to his rule from back-country Ashanti tribesmen, Nkrumah tried to deport two of their leaders even though they were Ghana citizens. Challenged in court for such behavior, he rushed a special law through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen...
Outside the local bar society, which has some feelings about the rule of law, none of this seemed to distress many Ghanaians. But it raised outcries all over Britain, which having launched this "Pilot Plant of African Democracy" to show South Africa's Racists how well the blacks could govern themselves, at first sought to minimize its misgivings (TIME, Sept. 2). What particularly raised British hackles was an awareness that actions in Accra were not just the doing of a headstrong Nkrumah but were shrewdly encouraged by a white eminence, Ghana's recently appointed Attorney General, Ulster-born...
...rule is certainly still authoritarian, but rests firmly on the popular support which Gomulka commands. "Gomulka gained his standing by becoming a symbol of national rejection of Soviet domination," Brzezinski said...