Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syria (pop. 3,800,000) became the new headline favorite. A flimsy agrarian republic about the size of North Dakota, Syria tries hard to sound like Nasser's most ferocious ally, though in fact it is about the weakest sister of the Arab world. The glory of the caliph's Damascus has been gone for 1,200 years. Modern Syria as a nation dates only from the World War I collapse of Turkey's Ottoman Empire. For almost 25 years the French ruled Syria as mandated territory, leaving behind some culture and much hatred. The young Republic...
Last week Libya's aged King Idris showed himself surprisingly independent of his ambitious neighbor Nasser. Opening the Libyan Parliament, he stressed the "strongest resentment at the aggression of which our sister state, Egypt, has been a victim," and asked for a "review" of Libya's treaty with Britain. But this done, Libya itself bravely stood up to Egypt. The Colonel. Chief provocation was one Colonel Ishmail Sadek, who had turned up in Libya as Egypt's military attache. He proclaimed something called the "Front for the Struggle of the Libyan People," with the announced objective...
...Unita and helped turn it from a wartime underground weekly into the official Communist daily (estimated circ 350.000), which claims to be Italy's second biggest newspaper (after Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera). On Il Paese (estimated circ. 50,000), L'Unita's sister paper, Rocco played up stories of Russian brutality in Hungary, persuaded Editor in Chief Tomaso Smith to run editorials blasting L'Unita's attempts to blame the uprisings on "fascist counter-revolutionaries." When Rocco refused to join the party in defending Russia, he was fired...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, which has long worried over the way speculative Canadian stock issues pour into U.S. markets despite SEC regulations, last week got what it thought was a perfect example of how it is done. The case involved Great Sweet Grass Oils Ltd. and Kroy Oils Ltd., sister Canadian companies whose stock was recently suspended on the American Stock Exchange because the oil and asset claims looked suspicious (TIME, Nov. 5). But as SEC poked deeper in a hearing last week, it uncovered a series of transactions that seemed to duck around U.S. regulations and bring windfall profits...
...visually excellent manner. Lee Jeffries, as a witch-like partial leader of the chorus and voice of conscience, grinds out her evil incantations with great effect, even if she at first juggles a few too many accents on her tongue. Louise Bell, as the vision of the dead sister, is properly lovely, graceful, and ethereal...