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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. could get together. But Khrushchev's more crucial decision to give Nixon a chance to shine in Russia was a conscious effort to persuade the U.S. to bypass NATO, the Big Four and the U.N., in favor of direct dealings with Moscow. Khrushchev had been almost indifferent-as well as rude-to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Now, in return for his welcome to Nixon, Nikita unabashedly hoped to get an invitation to the U.S. And judging from the sounds emerging from Washington-and from Nixon himself in Moscow (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he was likely in due course...
Violated Paradise. As India's only Communist-run state-and the world's only existing Communist government to have achieved power through legal elections-Kerala should have been a show place for Asia's Reds. Instead, it seemed to violate almost every promise that a workers' paradise is supposed to offer. Its local Action Committees not only disrupted law and order; they raised havoc with farm production. When Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad tried to impose the Communist line upon Kerala's private schools, he united against himself two usually antagonistic groups, the wealthy, conservative...
Lebanon, half Christian and half Moslem, is a small, well-to-do nation that owes its prosperity to the common realization that the quarrels which divide it are bad for business and impossible to resolve. Almost torn apart by feuds a year ago until U.S. troops intervened, Lebanon still remembers its differences...
...held up a gory picture of a Turcoman woman, demanded: "What right did they have to kill this woman? Is that what the granting of rights to women means?" Almost absently, Kassem continued: "Look at these savage acts. Do they not discredit freedom and democracy? What have you done? These pictures cause pain. Look at the poor people being dragged in the streets." Composing himself, Kassem said: "Rest assured that this will not happen again. There is force ready to destroy anyone attempting...
...purpose of dragging through the streets the sons of the people. The students marked some of the houses 'suspect' and others 'for dragging.' " Kassem's wrath next turned to the Red-dominated Iraqi trade unions, which he accused of engaging too heavily in politics. Almost as a footnote, he referred to another riotous occasion-the Mosul uprising last March in which a notorious Communist lawyer "buried 17 persons alive...