Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as Pakistani educators cast about for ways to solve the sex crisis at Karachi U., one college head imposed a 5-rupee ($1.05) fine on boys and girls caught talking to each other; by week's end he had collected 100 rupees. Most male students, however, saw...
Iraq's Arab enemies, led by the United Arab Republic's President Nasser, laid plans to intervene when and if civil war broke out between Iraq's Communists and antiCommunists. In Syria, the junior member of the U.A.R., 3,000 Palestinians, trained as Nasserite commandos, were being...
In Baghdad itself, daily bulletins continued to insist that Kassem was recovering nicely from his wounds, would soon leave the hospital. On that happy day, Iraqi citizens were promised free admission to movie theaters, half fare on trains, and free circumcision for their newborn sons. But like any other Arab...
Mild as it was, the new plan pleased no one. Said Group Captain Leslie Briggs, hard-shell leader of the far-right, pure-white United Party: "This is dishonest and dangerous-we would have no right to stop a convicted Mau Mau gangster farming next door to us." With equal...
Sermon of Hate. But even as Schrijver spoke, the Congolese were tragically showing how little sense of political responsibility they have. Once again the colony's leading political party, Abako, was up to its old tricks of playing upon the superstitions of the ignorant. In the port of Matadi...