Word: salman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, the Government got tough with more than 60 Iraqis charged with a Communist conspiracy against the state. Chief defendant was Yusuf Salman, Moscow-trained Communist leader known to the underground as El Fahd (The Cheetah). Last week El Fahd, pale and thin after an eight-day hunger strike against conditions in his sweltering Baghdad prison, faced his judges in striped pajamas and sandals. Salman fainted in his chair as he heard the sentence: death for him and two codefendants. Thirty-four others were sentenced to prison, 28 were acquitted...
Others were quick to follow his lead. Last week Drs. Salman A. Waksman and H. Boyd Woodruff reported discovery of agents from soil which kill "gram-negative" (red-staining) germs-such as those of typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera. But scientists are going ahead cautiously. The protective value of both "gram-positive" and "gram-negative" destroyers has yet to be tried on human beings...