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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexandria (no schools closed yet, but five involved in a pending integration suit). A 900-member, all-white Parent-Teacher Association voted a resolution calling upon the city council to break with massive resistance and push for local option on integration...
Richmond. At the yearly convention of the allwhite, 25,000-member Virginia Education Association, made up of teachers, principals and education officials, 1,113 delegates overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling upon Almond to summon the state legislature into special session "at an early date for the purpose of enacting such legislation as will assure the continued operation of the Virginia public schools as a state-supported function...
...courageous personality has been what chiefly held Jordan together. The overwhelming majority of his subjects are former Palestinians, many of them refugees, without any devotion to Hussein. Increasingly, the King has excluded the more literate but less trustworthy Palestinians from key posts in the army, depending instead upon tribal loyalties of the Bedouins in eastern Jordan. Only martial law upholds the government, only the army's loyalty sustains the throne, only U.S. aid poured in at the rate of $50 million a year keeps the economy going. Since Hussein threw out a pro-Nasser Cabinet 18 months...
...King's departure drew near, the U.S. formally called upon both Nasser and Ben-Gurion to make no rash moves...
France, which should have four divisions in the NATO line, has siphoned off 2½ for the fighting in Algeria. Far from being apologetic. French Chief of Staff General Paul Ely last week demanded that NATO commit itself to the defense of all French territories in Africa. "Upon pain of death," declared General Ely, NATO must develop a "peripheral strategy" to prevent the U.S.S.R. from subverting Africa and thereby turning NATO's Mediterranean flank...