Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale basketball team overpowered the freshmen 70-54 at Yale. The best Crimson performance came from Bill McBride who scored 19 points, while Jerry O'Neil, the Yardlings usual strongman was held to seven...
Even Burma's own leaders are some what embarrassed about it, and are having a few second thoughts. General Ne Win, the tough, ascetic strongman who nationalized everything in sight after he took power in a 1962 coup, has put the production and distribution of 34 basic food items back into private hands, and last week had an agent in Eastern Europe to seek advice about how to run a socialist country without going broke. Last week the government also released 182 political prisoners from its jails and hinted that some of the 2,000 others still locked...
Land Surrender. Although virtually all African leaders are products of mission schools, many of them are now suspicious of Christian-supervised education. Uganda Strongman Milton Obote, who was educated by Protestants, has already nationalized all missionary schools; religious instruction is included in the curricula, but the churches claim that many government-appointed teachers refuse to teach it. Tanzania last month demanded that missions give up unused landholdings...
...surprisingly exact replica in Dahomey. Cotonou is a jerry-built outcropping of grandiose, half-filled government buildings and a splendid four-lane boulevard that runs straight and proud to the weeds and sand at the city's edge. The one major difference is that Dahomey's strongman, President Christophe Soglo, held out the warm hand of friendship-and frank financial interest...
...fact Demirel was simply making gestures that would muffle the critics in Turkey who feel he is too friendly to the West. An ambitious politician with big plans for development and reform, Demirel took office with one stiff strike against him: he was the political heir of ex-Strongman Adnan Menderes, whom the army overthrew in 1960 and executed. As a result, the army was at first suspicious of him, and the left-of-center opposition, led by Inönü, did its noisiest best to discredit him as a lackey of the U.S. For months the opposition...