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In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]
1952Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (died 2018)[†]
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He was president of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T), and a key figure in the opposition to then-president Robert Mugabe.
1952Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.[†]
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and political leader who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his 1959 resignation.
elections for const assembly of new state; Christian Dems get most votes, Soc Dems and Free Dems next; Soc Dems show largest gain, Christian Dems greatest loss over '49 vote in same area; refugee party shows strength; Adenauer comment
NY Commerce & Indus Assn outlines stand; backs 3% sales tax but opposes making 2% tax permanent; backs restoration of 5% pari-mutuel tax rate, tax on cigarettes; opposes gross receipts tax, hotel rooms and gasoline tax; Greater NY Retail Grocers Conf urges Dewey and legislators to oppose gross receipts tax rise
Asst Sec Bendetsen tells unions natl interest demands undisrupted service; Justice Dept ready to seek injunction; Govt action in winter '50-51 strikes revd; White House aides, Key West, comment
Bevan threatens to quit party if it fails to accept his policy
F J Tenuto is prime suspect; Schusters had rejected police protection; Sutton denies knowledge of murder; WPIX offers $1,000 for data on slayer
Cardinal Segura scores Truman statement on Govt; fears closer ties with US; notes ex-Amb Griffis statement on alleged Govt delay in effecting religious freedom
Communists charge UN camp authorities in league with SKs and Nationalist China instructors instigate hunger strikes against forced repatriation; UN warns it will not 'sit and listen' to enemy charges of bad faith; rejects charges; Libby says warning means UN will recess, not break off talks; UN repr comments on enemy threats in connection with Nationalist China; Communists reptdly deny transferring POWs to Manchuria
with 2 colleagues oppose shifting NYC transit operations to TB&TA, lr
Sen Taft
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 9 -- With a $1,500,000 publicity campaign being planned to encourage the people of the United States to drink more coffee, Brazilians have been shocked to find one of their own official publications decrying its use.