Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communism is not the issue in Asia, claimed Miss Jean Mintz, one time adviser to the Indonesian embassy, during an informal seminar on Southeast Asia last Saturday. The people there are too concerned over becoming independent national states to worry about this country's battle with Communism...
Thus M.N.R. wrested control of the country from the military junta which had annulled the election victory won last year by the M.N.R. leader, Victor Paz Estenssoro, who campaigned from exile. In Buenos Aires, 1,400 miles to the southeast, Paz Estenssoro made ready to fly to La Paz this week. A bespectacled, soft-spoken onetime economics professor, Paz has been called everything from "the No. 1 Nazi of the Americas" to "a Communist of the right." Now he says mildly that his first steps in power will be to balance Bolivia's budget and get a higher price...
...world's deftest job of land reclamation was going great guns this week in southern Australia. Every fortnight, the Australian Mutual Provident (life insurance) Society plans to turn out a new, 1,000-acre farm. The land it uses is part of the "Ninety-Mile Desert" southeast of Adelaide, covered until recently only with sparse, unhealthy scrub...
Blazing Floods. At 400 feet, however, just as the C46 was about to make a left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...
...general analysis of the mistakes of America in world policy, he claimed that the United States had failed to realize the power of poverty and the revolutionary desire for liberty in many former British, French, and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia. He criticized the State Department for failing to take advantage of its "dramatic" opportunities...