Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Identical Words. The radio had come on the air, blaring martial music. Then at dawn the announcer read a communique signed by Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, chief of staff of the 10,000-man Sudanese army. He was taking over the 1,000,000 square miles of the Sudan, said Abboud, to end governmental corruption and chaos and to restore peace and order. Declaring martial law, Abboud shut down all newspapers, banned all political parties and public assemblies or demonstrations. Using almost the identical words of General Ne Win and General Ayub Khan when they seized power in Burma...
...tribe that furnished the Fuzzy-Wuzzies immortalized by Rudyard Kipling for breaking a British square, Abboud became an army lieutenant in 1921, served with the British in Eritrea and North Africa during World War II, emerged as a colonel commanding a camel corps, and was finally named chief of staff by Premier Khalil...
...Damascus this week, at the Cathedral of Mariameyeh (the Virgin Mary), a short, portly man with rosy cheeks and a long white beard, in vestments of gold and silver brocade, received a golden staff topped with twin serpents-and thus became the 173rd Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, the post revered by Eastern Orthodoxy as the oldest seat in Christendom.-Behind his election loomed a battle between Communism and the West...
...London Daily Telegraph has added a new correspondent to its U.S. staff, subscribes to the New York Times news service; the London Daily Express now has six reporters in the U.S.-four in New York, one in Washington and one on the West Coast-and has introduced a regular weekly feature called "Transatlantic Page, " a compendium of items about the U.S. The Sunday Express, which recently went to 24 pages (from an average 16), has devoted much of the extra space to U.S. coverage, keeps a fulltime correspondent, Arthur Brittenden in New York City...
...Last week it found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst's 17 newspapers have been collectively losing ground. Hearst hopes to pump new life into the old Mechanics, but to the staff's handymen the transaction was a sad event. Mourned one of them: "When I think of the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into every issue...