Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...assassinate the Emperor last year). But Haile Selassie's trip to remote Brazil seemed ideal. One morning before dawn the Imperial Guard, led by rebel officers, seized strong points in Addis Ababa, including all communication centers. Asfa Wassan named Imru as Premier and went on the radio to explain that the purpose of the coup was to end "3,000 years of injustice . . . The Ethiopian people have waited patiently to be freed of oppression, poverty and ignorance." The Crown Prince promised to set up a true constitutional monarchy, and to allow the creation of political parties-for which...
...looked irresistible. A tide of nationalism and of disenchantment with U.S. leadership is running in Canada. Hardly a day goes by without calls for Canada to assert its own leadership and go its own self-interested way. Last week Prime Minister Diefenbaker rose in the House of Commons to explain Ottawa's official position. Said he: "We respect the views of other nations in their relations with Cuba just as we expect that they respect our views in our relations...
...West Germany, Acheson's proposal met with sharp resistance. "Believe me," observed then-President Theodor Heuss, "at first it was not very easy to explain to the man in the street that it was his duty to do military service, after he had been told by propaganda that his previous military service had been bordering on criminal action." By this time, Franz Josef Strauss had observed that the man to get along with in German politics was Konrad Adenauer. When Adenauer, under Allied pressure, began talking up German rear mament, Strauss did too. It looked like a road...
...said he did. In one account alone, he reportedly made the amount the state listed as his total "ascertainable" profit. In Paris, Darvas called the charges false, a "cynically irresponsible action, book burning by publicity." As soon as he gets a copy of the complaint, he said, he will explain...
Well went on to explain that in view of the State Department's interest in the third point, discussion "stressed the technical and psychological aspects of an inspection system and the need to work out the problems of international inspection teams before a treaty is actually signed...