Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chasm that split Gamal Abdel Nasser from the West more than two years ago in the Anglo-French invasion of Suez was papered over by money last week. The strongman of the Nile, needing written help to withstand the Communists in the Middle East, got set to make an economic settlement with the British. The U.S. has already agreed to sell him 200,000 tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international...
CUBA'S latest revolution was plotted in gunrunning missions off the Florida coast, in elegant Havana yacht clubs, in the man-trying mountains of eastern Cuba, and in the hushed offices of leading Havana lawyers. The men who made the revolt shared a common hatred of Strongman Batista, but had notably varied backgrounds...
...poetry-writing wholesale grocer, Rómulo Betancourt was born February 22, 1908 in the village of Guatire, 25 miles from Caracas. In 1928, during his third year of law school, he took part in a series of demonstrations against Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. The grim strongman put the fiery student in ball-and-chain, later hounded him into exile in Colombia...
...where they should be heading. The eccentric Abbé Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Republic of Congo is not a man to want to join a federation that may cut down his own power within his present preserve. The abbe's more statesmanlike neighbor to the north, Strongman Barthelemy Boganda, of the former French territory of Ubangi-Shari -now grandly called the Central African Republic* fears that in the fragmentation of French Equatorial African states, the young republics might fall victim to a "new colonialism...
...technicians" as ministers. Under pressure from the politicians, the King has joined in demands for the total and unconditional withdrawal of U.S. and French forces from Morocco. But he is disturbed that "my policies are now being made by extremists," and hesitates to take over as Morocco's strongman to restore peace in his troubled land. If Mohammed V does-former Vice Premier Abderrahim Bouabid warned darkly-"he will not be above criticism...