Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plotters Without Plans. The regime the free officers overthrew was probably the most unpopular of any in the Middle East. With iron hand, old Nuri had suppressed the political ambitions of the middle class, banned student activity, outlawed trade unions, forbidden freedom of the press. Scorning any mass appeal, Nuri governed by alliance with several hundred semifeudal sheiks who held 94% of the land. Thus, though Iraq is the only Middle East country with plenty of both oil and water, its peasants were as wretched as any in all Asia. And though much of the $200 million-a-year revenue...
According to Radcliffe's present examination rules, nearly identical with those suggested in 1954, students are forbidden to remove question sheets or blue books from the exam room and are requested not to talk in the room or halls. They are still free to leave the room without a proctor's guardianship. However, these rules lost much of their importance last fall, when the Radcliffe Administration voted to hold joint exams with Harvard in courses enrolling less than 20 'Cliffies. As a result, Radcliffe administered only 52 separate examinations at mid-year, while Harvard and its regulations controlled finals...
Stripped of their Habsburg empire after World War I, neutralized by the belated World War II peace treaty of 1955, the Austrians have become a country without a cause. They cannot align their armies with East or West, are forbidden to reunite with Germany. But they cannot be stopped from having patriotic ambitions...
...long as the French were in control, the rivalry between the territory's two leading politicians was kept in hand. The flamboyant Abbé Fulbert Youlou-a Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation...
...before the De Gaulle government's four-month emergency powers expired, became law. Only the Moslem Mozabite sect, whose 40,000 members are not quite ready to be yanked out of the Middle Ages, was exempted from it. For the rest of Algeria, compulsory child marriages will be forbidden, and courts will rule on divorce, custody over children and alimony. Though Néfissa's bill does not outlaw polygamy, it does the next best thing: an Algerian girl will be free to say no to a man who already has a wife...