Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farouk and the Shah, both 32-year-olds, had failed on both counts. Both intervened to save their countries from nationalist fanatics, whose extremism threatened civil war. But Farouk's interventions, though courageous, were fitful; the Shah's too timid. Farouk, famed for yachts, gambling and women, lost his popular support to the corrupt Wafd Party; he antagonized his army by failing to clean out the extortionists in his own palace...
...climb from poverty. All that seemed far away in happy Durham: today miners are a privileged class in Britain. Because Britain so badly needs them, they get better rations and more government benefits than any other group in the land, while Britannia figuratively begs them to help save her from the shame of bankruptcy by mining just 10% more coal...
...other Latin Americans rallied to intercede for the zealot. From Guatemala, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and El Salvador flowed petitions and resolutions. Puerto Ricans in New York City formed a Save Collazo Committee, got 30,000 signatures on a clemency petition. From Puerto Rico came messages pointing out that the island has no death penalty. Last week Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Mufioz Marin sent an urgent telegram to the White House. The U.S. State Department advised the President that the execution of Collazo would damage U.S.. relations with all Latin America. Eight days before Collazo's anticipated...
...lucky break. Barrachin's group noisily insists that they are still Gaullists at heart, and that they would resist the Schuman Plan and the European Army as bitterly as De Gaulle himself. But on economic issues, about which Pinay cares most, the Barrachinistes would do their best to save the franc. They proved it last week by standing by Pinay in a confidence vote on the échelle mobile, a cost-of-living bill which ties wage hikes to price increases. It was the last vote of the Assembly's summer session and Pinay won it handily...
Iran couldn't see any other leader save Mossadegh, but having chosen him it wondered what to do next. Mossadegh himself was uneasy. This week, he appeared before a closed session of the Majlis and demanded unlimited powers for the next six months to deal with Iran's economic crisis. The Majlis must say yes, he added, with no buts about...