Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every day across the Arab world Eisenhower was hailed as a hero. While the ambassadors of Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey made a special call at the State Department in Washington and thanked the U.S. for its support, U.S. ambassadors in the Middle East reported a friendliness they had never known before...
...This," declared the U.S. Secretary of State, "will be an important meeting, perhaps the most important such meeting that has been held." Saying this, John Foster Dulles last week stepped aboard a special MATS Constellation and headed for Paris and the semiannual ministerial meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His own convalescence at an end, Dulles was determined to bring good health to an ailing NATO...
...finding asylum in the West. It was not an easy decision to make. Few, if any, of the athletes were dedicated Communists, but an Olympic champion is an important man behind the Iron Curtain and is generally sure of a guaranteed income far beyond the average, and many special privileges. Defection would mean losing all of these sure advantages for a doubtful future in a strange country. And failure to return might mean reprisals against relatives...
...bosses' orders again, said Gomulka, Poland would not have enough coal to send abroad for the food and raw materials it must import to live on. There is "no possibility" of general wage raises in 1957, said he, without a simultaneous increase in production. But Gomulka had a special concession for the miners: since they were underpaid, their "basic wages should be appropriately raised." This did not stop absenteeism. Two days later, at one nearby mine, 311 of 1,318 miners failed to report for work...
...last week, using the Suppression of Communism Act as their excuse, the special security police charged with imposing Strydom's will on his country swooped down on scores of homes throughout the cities of South Africa and arrested 140 people: clergymen, trade unionists, doctors, lawyers and private citizens. The one "crime" they had in common was bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of the Strydom regime...