Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since General Ne Win took power in Burma 14 months ago, he has worked conscientiously at clearing Rangoon's garbage-strewn streets, cracking down on Communist rebels in the northern jungles, improving the balance between the nation's agriculture and light industry. But he was one soldier who meant his often expressed desire to step down as soon as possible. Burma's politicians, whose squabbling and corrupt ways led to the military takeover in the first place, got a go-ahead last month with Ne Win's promise of elections in late January or early...
...Last month another mutineer, Lieut. Colonel AH Hamid, decided that destiny awaited him, and drove with his band into the Omdurman infantry barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his accomplices were hanged at Khartoum prison-the first casualties, after one year and 15 days, of the Middle East's gentlest revolution...
...Paulo exchanges are joint ventures. Japanese interests hold 40% of the USIMINAS steel plant (annual capacity: 500,000 tons), U.S., Canadian, French and Israeli interests are partners with Brazilians in seven cement plants. In Argentina, Kaiser Industries, which makes 2,500 vehicles a month, is owned 51% by Argentine stockholders, 16% by the Argentine Air Force, 33% by the U.S. parent firm...
...adjustment, which set the tone of LÓpez Mateos' first year, was a tough and successful fight to save the peso from devaluation. In the first six months of 1958, under free-spending President Luis Ruiz Cortines, the country piled up a $96 million deficit abroad, a budget in the red by $66 million. LÓpez Mateos reversed course and slashed imports by $20 million a month by whacking public spending. The results: a severe crimp in the construction industry, a mild recession through much of the economy, but a nearly balanced budget and a favorable trade...
...break them." At week's end, Montreal Wrestling Promoter Eddie Quinn, a part owner of El Morocco, reasoned that the Crosby combo had been booked all wrong to begin with. He offered them a good deal for a tag-team grappling match in a local arena next month, figuring that a two-against-two skirmish "might be fairer...