Word: held
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...airport and flew to Algeria. Arriving in a driving rain, his first stop on a six-day tour was in Ai'n Temouchent, a market town near Oran, where 9,000 Moslems and 8,000 angry Europeans jammed the main square. Some Moslems, on order of their employers, held up banners reading "Algeria null but it was the Europeans who did most of the shouting. A valiant half-dozen Moslems suddenly raised a sign inscribed "Vive De Gaulle!" It was torn from their hands three times while the police looked...
Navy. Mainly volunteer, the navy has already reached planned strength of 25,000 and amassed 185 small patrol ships to help keep the Russian fleet boxed up in the Baltic. Strauss has held off building the destroyers that were supposed to lead his navy, and now has talked the German government into demanding that the 3,000-ton ceiling on the size of German destroyers be raised to 5.000 tons. He wants warships big enough to mount the latest A. A. rockets - and the 1,500-mile Polaris. His projected submarine force: 24 to 36 small coastal subs, designed...
...last week: Turkey's Strongman General Cemal Gursel, 66 and portly (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.), had suffered a partial paralysis of the left arm and side that also affected his speech. As relatives secretly gathered at his bedside in Ankara, anxious members of the ruling junta held hurried conferences with Gursel's doctors to determine what to say to the public and when...
...break with Rome. Presbyterians rely for faith and conduct on the Bible, believe in the Trinity, stressing the supreme sovereignty of God. Some doctrines such as predestination, once identified with Presbyterians, have largely fallen into discard. They practice the sacraments of baptism and communion, in which Christ is held to be present in spirit...
...Hostage. Sprawling, shocking, howlingly off key, marvelously in tune, humane and hilarious, this play is as much a portrait of Playwright Brendan Behan as it is the story of an English soldier held as a hostage at I.R.A. headquarters in a Dublin brothel...