Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶In 1959, city and village dwellers tending backyard gardens, and collective or state farm workers cultivating private gardens limited to one acre, turned out 46% of all the meat, 49% of all the green vegetables, 49% of all the milk, 65% of all the potatoes, and 80% of all...
¶The official Russian policy is that in due time, as the food supplies in state stores become more plentiful and cheaper, private gardening and the keeping of cows and chickens, etc.. will wither away. There is as yet no evidence this is happening. Despite an official campaign to...
President Charles de Gaulle's talk of an "Algerian republic" angered Algeria's European extremists, distressed many Frenchmen and left the Moslem rebels unimpressed. But it made one major convert: Habib Bourguiba, 57, President of Tunisia, who in a fit of exasperation last October welcomed Communist aid to...
Bourguiba is busily rounding up support among the new African states to the south (pointedly omitting left-leaning Ghana and Guinea) to go easy on France in this week's Algerian debate at the U.N. Bourguiba's argument: if De Gaulle gets his expected large majority in the...
Hot Opposition. It was now up to De Gaulle himself to put his prestige on the line again. This week he will go to Algeria to explain his policies to the French army and the hostile European colons, who are already talking of demonstrations.