Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Viewing the week's preponderantly bearish news, the stock market adopted the wait-and-see attitude of most businessmen. After a post-election surge, it dropped off slowly during the week, rallied at week's end to 596 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, down 10.47 points for...
There is little hope for an immediate settlement of the Algerian crisis despite overwhelming evidence for a referendum victory on Jan. 8, Raymond Aron, Ford Research Professor of Government, declared yesterday afternoon at the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs.
Charming his crowded but appreciative audience with a witty sense of humor, Aron explained that there are too many questions which have not yet been answered. Nobody knows, he pointed out, what sort of people De Gaulle is going to put in power if independence is granted to Algeria. And...
The most important question, however, is how DeGaulle plans to make peace in the first place. The French president, he pointed out, has not been able to come to any agreement with the FLN up to this time. He has demanded a cease-fire before negotiations can begin, but the...
According to Aron, this present impasse in negotiations has only made clear the near futility of the coming referendum. On Jan. 8, the French and Algerians will vote for either independence, association with French rule, or integration into the French republic. But these issues, he said, are the same as...