Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israeli power moves, but this did not detract from the seriousness of the situation. For in any such game, there is always the possibility that one of the players will mistake the other's bluff for the real thing, throw down his cards, kick over the table and start shooting...
Malaya: Despite a nine-year-old Communist uprising, Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, a wealthy Malayan Moslem prince, announced that his government would cut British forces in Malaya by 50% and start building its own army after the Federation (pop. 6,200,000) achieves independence next August...
...Menderes' Democrats in the 1950 elections, rose from his third-row Opposition bench to say: "I appreciate the pressure on the government to pass this budget. I am prepared to help, provided I have a promise to open a debate on the problems of the political regime." To start with, gruffed the old pasha, let the government reconstitute the little province of Kirsehir, which it split up three years ago only because it voted for the Opposition...
...Hint. The next move is up to Premier Menderes, who has hinted that he might begin by relaxing enforcement of his controversial laws. One conspicuous place where he might start is the case of Kasim Gulek, the Columbia University Ph.D. who is secretary-general of the opposition Republican Party. Gulek missed last week's party congress; he was in Istanbul to defend himself against one of the dozen or more harassing charges the government has brought against him, trying to silence his political speaking...
...fund when he took office five years ago, he fattened it from such civic windfalls as the $647,000 plum gained from a favorable turn of the exchange rate on borrowed U.S. dollars. By the time Hawrelak persuaded his fellow citizens to forgo other desperately needed civic improvements to start the city hall, he had the cash in sight...