Word: ejection
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Against the fervent and dramatic urgings of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, the annual conference of the British Labor Party last week voted a sensational course: to scrap British nuclear weapons, to eject Britain's U.S. allies from airbases on British soil, to pull out of the NATO alliance and count Britain out of the cold war. The decision cracked the crumbling Labor Party wide open. It doomed the Opposition Laborites-who have failed to win the confidence of British voters in three straight elections-to further years in the political wilderness...
...hard, but ready to go along. Soviet Russia, however, seemed to want nothing more than continued chaos in the Congo. Russian Delegate Vasily Kuznetzov dismissed the Afro-Asian resolution as too wishy-washy, suggested to fellow delegates that if the U.N. troops presently in the Congo could not eject the Belgians, the U.N. should send troops that would. The Russians also let it be known that Soviet troops would be only too happy to take on the task...
Bounces & Returns. With those prizes at stake, some bombs and bullets flew, and at least ten persons lay dead after political quarrels. Yet the secret ballot was getting results. Rural voters took the opportunity to eject two scions of old feudal clans from their traditional seats. Ex-President Chamoun, who accused his successors of rigging this election to bar him from a comeback, squeaked through to win a Maronite Christian seat. Also elected was a kingpin in the 1958 revolt that toppled Chamoun, moody Kamal Jumblatt. Another leader of that revolt, ex-Premier Saeb Salam, was confidently expected...