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Word: governance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peril of sounding unAmerican, let me point out one of the very few pitfalls of democracy. It permits someone like Ross Barnett to govern by popular vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Govern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Communists took over in China, but the status of Kowloon's six acres was not changed. The British were content to claim authority over Kowloon City while staying out of it, letting the jungle govern itself. But last month, when a police constable was attacked and a heroin-parlor attendant stabbed to death, exasperated Hong Kong cops finally moved in on the town. In one night they arrested 150 people, and nine-man patrols began nightly dawn-to-dusk raids, concentrating on the narcotics trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Law in the Jungle | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...million. How will they be handled? These people must work, they must live somewhere. There is only one way out-we are faced with the choice of either giving the white man his own area and the Bantu his, or having one state in which the Bantu will govern." Verwoerd's solution: a series of separate and remote tribal "Bantustans" that will, under "white guidance," be granted a degree of self-government. The scarcity of available land and the staggering cost of uprooting millions of unwilling Africans from the glitter of the cities give the scheme an aura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RESTLESS AFRICA | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Sukarno himself is less a strongman than a symbol. He must rule in partnership, and only two organizations-the army and the Communist Party-have the efficiency and administrative knack to help him govern. In naming his ten-man "inner" Cabinet last week, Sukarno clearly chose the army. Not a single post went to a Communist or a fellow traveler. Able ex-Premier Djuanda was named First Minister and Finance Minister. The army got two plums: the important Ministry of Security and Defense went to Army Commander Lieut. General A. Haris Nasution and the Production Ministry to Colonel Suprajogi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Good Old Days | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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