Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Well Back, Please. Inevitably, Norstad's proposal met with less than unanimous welcome. British Socialist John Strachey, onetime Minister of War under Clement Attlee, nervously declared that the West's nuclear strength should be placed "well back," preferably "on the other side of the Atlantic." French spokesmen made...
*The missing two: Denmark (whose parliamentarians have just been through a general election) and General Cemal Gursel's Turkey, which under the rule of a junta no longer has any parliamentarians to send.
After two and a half years of almost unprecedented power, France's Charles de Gaulle was still struggling last week to bring peace to Algeria. Just what he was up against could be seen in Paris' ornate Palais de Justice where a nine-man military tribunal was trying...
First to make the charge was Colonel Jean Gardes, 46, formerly France's top psychological warrior in Algiers. Gardes, who took the stand in full uniform, wearing white gloves and an array of 24 medals and citations collected in World War II and the Indo-China war, had volunteered...
Tall, handsome Pierre Lagaillarde added to the indictment. A 29-year-old doctor of law, Deputy in the National Assembly of the Fifth Republic and a demagogic crowd pleaser, Lagaillarde had been a passionate Gaullist in May 1958, when Algeria's Europeans set off the train of events that...