Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...opposition,'' he growled, "and any illegal activity on my part is incompatible with my position." When they suggested that Inonu free himself by resigning as party leader, he cut them short: ''The only way I will come to power is through free elections. That is final." The officers then approached Gursel. who agreed to head a "National Unity Committee...
...humdrum budget debate. Then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion rose and, in a voice breaking with emotion, said: "I have to inform the Knesset that one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible together with the Nazi leaders for what they called the 'final solution' of the Jewish question-that is, the extermination of 6,000.000 of the Jews of Europe-is under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial in Israel...
...Belgian government last week regretfully announced that it could not give the final results of the Congo's nationwide elections. Among the reasons: ¶In the Sankuru River, a motor launch carrying ballot boxes downstream struck a sandbar and sank. Boxes containing 10,-ooo ballots disappeared in a swirling mass of crocodiles...
...monitors glared eerily in the darkened U.S. Air Force command post at Sunnyvale, Calif. At a winking control console sat Lieut. Colonel Charles Glenn Mathison, commander of the 6,$4Qth Test Wing (Satellite), listening through earphones to the crackle of reports from a vast communications network. Mathison made a final check with radar tracking stations scattered around the earth. All were ready. From Cape Canaveral, Fla. came the word: "RF system ready." At T minus 10 seconds, "Moose" Mathison gave Canaveral the go-ahead: "Ready to launch." Canaveral's countdown neared its end: ". . . eight, seven, six, five, four, three...
...Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle: Vol. Ill, Salvation 1944-46. This final volume shows clearly the incorruptible honesty, and the accurate but sometimes irritating sense of destiny, of the man who may well prove to be the greatest Frenchman of his century...