Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balkans) had verified the mass deportation of Greek children. The U.N. General Assembly had called on Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Rumania for the return of the children. These governments had finally agreed to return any children called for by petition of their parents. Up to last week the Greek Red Cross had forwarded 8,000 petitions, but not one child had been sent back...
...deserted and got back to her village-without her children. In Fourka Konitsa, the villagers learned in advance of the guerrillas' abduction plans. They hid the children in ditches. The guerrillas, frustrated, took Sofia Makri and 20 other mothers to the mountains and tortured them. Said Sofia last week: "They hung us from pine trees. They burned our feet with coals. They beat us. When we fainted they revived us with cold water from the spring. Fourteen of us died up there but we did not tell. When the Greek army entered our village they found the dead living...
...International Refugee Organization has on its hands 26,000 displaced specialists-teachers, doctors, engineers, scientists. Although their skills are desperately needed in many parts of the world, they have been battering vainly for months against immigration barriers. Last week I.R.O. had its first success in placing a large group of its select men & women. Fifty-four of them, from camps all over Western Europe, boarded a plane at Rome and flew off to begin a new life in the Dominion of Pakistan...
...kings, governments and hotelkeepers did their best to live up to Mr. Baedeker; so did millions of tourists who followed the famed little red books to far corners of the earth, trying to keep their eyes at once on the great sights and on the small grey type. Last week, after a blackout of more than a decade, a brand-new Baedeker (on the West German Land Schleswig-Holstein) was again in the hands of travelers. Many a king and government had since become tourists in oblivion, but Mr. Baedeker was back in business...
...western side of the Sinai Peninsula last week, Egypt's King Farouk, 29, who recently divorced Farida ("Peerless"), his queen of eleven years, was behaving remarkably like David. Farouk was getting ready to marry again. There are several non-synoptic versions of how this came to pass, and the most reliable account is this...