Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though one Kenya African leader grumped that his people would never be satisfied until Jomo Kenyatta is free, and some white settlers were alarmed at the impending release of hundreds of Mau Mau murderers, Harold Macmillan's new Colonial Secretary, bright, ambitious Iain Macleod, intends a bolder, more liberal...
As for the U.S. position on the quarrel, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter surprised reporters in Washington last week by remarking that the U.S. had not "taken any sides at all" in the Sino-Indian border dispute and, when pressed, conceded that "the U.S. has no view whatsoever as...
Sixty-Two Cheers. Any sign by Nehru that he was determined to resist Chinese encroachment would obviously find his people behind him. In fact, some were well ahead of him. Last week a crowd of 300 university students paraded to Nehru's home demanding the dismissal of unpopular Defense...
The enormous crowd in the square was held back from the gallows by police and 200 soldiers. Latecomers were arriving by taxi, and villagers streamed in on foot from the surrounding countryside. Mahmud was hailed by the thunderous cry of "Salavat" (Felicity to Mohammed and his descendants). Before his hands...
Immediately upon his appointment as chief of staff, Song launched an investigation of the army from top to bottom. First results: the arrest of scores of crooked officers, from generals to lieutenants. Many were found to be taking bribes from contract-hungry businessmen -and in several cases even succeeded in...