Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faction has remained fairly constant since the rebellion's beginning, are signs of an urge to compromise. But the U.S. has yet to persuade Chamoun that he is not free simply to press the panic button in order to have the U.S. Marines rescue his political career (his term expires Sept. 23). If he learned that the U.S. was committed to the integrity, independence and sovereignty of Lebanon rather than to his own political fortunes, then a way might be found to end an inconclusive war that now serves only to benefit the hopeful heirs to anarchy and agitation...
President Camille Chamoun, 58, one of the world's handsomest chiefs of state, rounds out his six-year term in September and still has not rejected the idea of another. Trim, silver-haired, he took his law degree at the French Jesuit St. Joseph's University in Beirut, married a wife who is half English, half Lebanese and a Presbyterian. Chamoun himself, as tradition dictates for a Lebanese president, is a Roman Catholic of the Maronite sect. Elected as an ardent nationalist on a reform ticket, he stuck to Lebanon's customary neutral foreign policy until...
...Maronite Christian, he is a collateral of the famous Emirs Mansur, Yusuf and Bashir who ruled Lebanon under the Ottoman Turks. Eighty percent of his officers, 60% of his men are Christian. Six years ago, when Chamoun's predecessor tried to stay in office during an unpopular second term, Shehab refused him the army's assistance and reluctantly served as acting president until Chamoun's election. Ostentatiously unwilling to order his troops to fight except when attacked, ever ready to parley affably with rebel leaders, and to see that they are kept well supplied with food...
...parade of gaily decorated floats and charros (cowboys) on prancing horses. As they have since 1946, Mexicans will go to the polls next week and-barring an upset more sensational than Harry Truman's-elect the candidate of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) to a six-year term...
...Said Kenneth Ward, partner of Hayden, Stone & Co.: "Common stocks are being purchased as a hedge against long-term inflation. Investors are beginning to realize that many companies are lowering their break-even points, so that when business improves, profits will be better than ever. If we get a pickup in durable sales and a cleaning out of inventories, there will be grounds for a new bull market...