Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolt in Araby, ascetic Abdul Karim Kassem began to edge over to the other side of his seesaw. Without fanfare it was announced that Communists involved in last summer's Kirkuk massacre of Iraqi nationalists had been put on trial in an anti-Communist military court; simultaneously hints went out that, if everyone behaved, there might be sweeping amnesties for some of the several hundred nationalists languishing in Iraq's prisons. At week's end, Kassem was still maintaining his equilibrium, but his grisly balancing act lacked some of its old assurance...
...rush never came. The first day of the program, 15,000 Koreans showed up at the ward offices, but only 117 signed up. The rest went at the behest of Korean Communist leaders to protest the repatriation plan. The last-minute question about a change of mind, insisted the Reds would be "a breach of human rights." Tight as their control over their followers appeared, the Reds had not forgotten that in U.N. prisoner-of-war camps at the end of the Korean war, a similar questioning process had turned up an embarrassing 14,000 Chinese Communist soldiers...
Along with all this went a persistent rumor that Red China was determined to fire a rocket that was not a toy-a Russian-supplied missile that might put a Chinese satellite in orbit around the earth. If the rocket failed, there was speculation that Red China might explode an Abomb, also borrowed from the Russians. One way or another, Red China this week plans to overawe its Asian neighbors and to serve notice on the West that it is a nation with the ambitions, if not the substance, of a first-rank power...
...President, he received a monthly salary of $700, but much of it went to treat a pair of heart attacks and a stroke that left his left side paralyzed. When his salary, his savings and his term ran out, a friendly doctor treated him free. "I took massage and special exercises," says Cafe Filho. "I forced my muscles to move again." In 1956 Brazil's Varig airline flew him to the U.S. free for treatment by Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White...
Reed Army Hospital for treatment for partial paralysis, went visiting a young lady friend in Cairo. She is Nahed Hassanein, 4, daughter of a Cairo lawyer and rumored to be the young prince's intended bride. No one could say that it was love; Nahed seemed more taken by a toy animal that Mashhur brought her than by the prince himself. In any event, the tots have plenty of time to get to know each other: if they do marry, it will not be for years...