Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff, is known to believe that negotiations should be long in order that the army can be persuaded to go along with the government at every step. Former Chief of General Staff General Georges Revers last week issued a statement, in the name of a veterans group called "The Army Organization of the Resistance," warning against "abandonment" of Algeria and political negotiations with the rebels. Yet De Gaulle's Delegate-General for Algeria, Paul Delouvrier, obviously preparing Algerian European settlers for other possibilities, broadcast last week that "it would be a mistake to think . . . the discussions...
...seat in the National Assembly. As he walked up the steps of the Assembly building to attend his first parliamentary meeting, he was arrested and accused of such infractions of the law as starting his campaign too early and making "false promises" to the voters. In April, a group of 18 former officials, ranging from the president of the Vietnamese Red Cross to the brother of the Ambassador to the U.S., petitioned Diem to liberalize his regime. Diem ignored them and, perhaps as a warning, ordered the arrest of 30 doctors, journalists and students suspected of "affiliation with the Communists...
Obliging Greeks. To supply the 20 million bbl. of oil that Cuba burns each year, between 15 and 25 tankers will have to travel constantly between the Black Sea and Cuba. A group of "golden Greek" tanker operators, led by the wealthy Stavros Niarchos, has signed an agreement to charter between 80 and 120 tankers to the Soviet Union. Niarchos piously denies that any of the ships will be used to carry oil to Cuba-but, of course, the deal frees Russian tankers to do the job. Even so, Castro could be heading for trouble. On one of his recent...
...Kingston Trio's Sold Out was anything but. With fond backward glances at Billboard's bestseller chart, where Sold Out last week led all the rest, Capitol Records was keeping all music shops well supplied with the hottest album cut so far by the hottest group in U.S. popular music...
...months the climax had been build ing. Every meet seemed to produce new headlines, new records, new prodigies. Under challenge, the veterans slowly sweated their way back to top form. Last week 221 teen-agers and oldtimers, the finest group of trackmen in U.S. history, met for two days at Palo Alto, Calif, to struggle for the precious places on the team that will go to the Rome Olympics this August. "The competition will be the best it has ever been," predicted U.S. Olympic Track Coach Larry Snyder...