Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disenchantment. What had happened? Many Middle East specialists thought that refugee disenchantment with Nasser began with the Israeli attack into the Sinai. There, before the eyes of 220,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip, their posturing champion, who was to lead the refugees back to their homeland, went down to abject defeat before the Israeli army. To every refugee came the sobering realization that no Arab leader was going to force Israel into the sea and restore them to their lands...
John C. Cooper, Professor at the Institute of International Air Law at McGill University, suggests a strip of national air space within which all conventional aircraft fly. This follows the present system where nations can fly over each other's land only after negotiating agreements. Above this territorial space would be a zone up to three hundred miles high of "contiguous" air space. Haley points out that nations would have partial sovereignty over this area, since most future flights through this zone would be ground to ground rocket flights. Since transportation would have to use the landing facilities...
Morocco's Ministry of Justice is working on the draft of a new divorce law that will strip Moroccan men of the right to shed their spouses simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times, and bring the law more nearly into accord with Western-type procedures. Polygamy, a delicate subject since the King himself has two wives, will probably be so ringed with further restrictions that it will become for all practical purposes impossible...
...white-breasted stilt plover, a breed seldom seen in Italy, which migrates each fall from Arctic Siberia to North Africa. On the bird's right leg Lamia found a glass vial containing a message, written in Italian with scrawled capital letters on both sides of an eight-inch strip of paper. On orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years we have been working as slaves in mines. These men have slit eyes. One dies like...
...over President's power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...