Word: years
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final vote, the resolution failed for the second straight year to get the necessary two-thirds majority. The score: 39 yes, 22 no, 20 abstentions (including...
While U.S. legislators worry about whether to put their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum. "The conditions under which we work," declared one indignant Labor M.P., "are a public scandal." Last week, at the insistence of Labor's fiery, red-haired Boadicea, Barbara Castle, members of the House of Commons were at long last determined to do something about their own welfare...
...Last year, when De Gaulle visited the Senegalese capital of Dakar (pop. 230,000), its leaders stayed away with diplomatic illnesses, and crowds held aloft DE GAULLE GO HOME signs, as the general rode through the streets. But last week everyone was happy with the new state of affairs. Premier Keita told a mass meeting at Dakar's sport stadium: "The stranger who comes to our house is like a god. Ladies and gentlemen, you must treat De Gaulle...
...suspicion that they had burned their shops to get the insurance. In Cambodia, Chinese residents were barred from 18 occupations, ranging from barbering to pawnbrokering to, curiously enough, espionage. In Indonesia, Chinese traders and their families-some 300,000 people-were ordered to get out of rural villages by year's end. Not since the Japanese swarmed into the South Pacific in World War II have Asia's Overseas Chinese felt their position so threatened...
...This year the Southeast Asian governments that Red China has been wooing began to grow nervous about Peking's brutal behavior. They were frightened by Tibet, worried by Laos, and depressed by Chinese belligerency on India's northern borders. In their fear of new Red aggression, they viewed the Overseas Chinese as a potential fifth column...