Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In West Germany, a day after the New York disaster, a U.S. Air Force Convair, carrying 13 holiday-bound University of Maryland students and a crew of seven, crashed in downtown Munich shortly after takeoff, heeled sharply into a two-section trolley car jammed with Christmas shoppers, and exploded into...
Startling as a shout, the silent casbah sprang to life last week, and its outburst basically altered the nature and changed the pace of the long-drawn-out agony known by the bleak title of "the Algerian problem."
In the aftermath of De Gaulle's turbulent five-day visit, two things were becoming clearer. As a hope and a plan, Algérie Française was dead. The European extremists, whose mob violence overthrew the Fourth Republic, had proved paper tigers. And in the face of...
Second fact was that De Gaulle's proposal of an "Algerian Algeria" linked to France had neither appeased nor diverted the Moslems in their drive for independence. By liberalizing voting laws and by massive social reform, De Gaulle had hoped to win over the vast noncombatant Moslem majority, separate...
De Gaulle's offer of an Algerian republic now seems the only course left, short of granting immediate independence. Plainly, a French-sponsored republic would be only a transitional regime; with Moslem sentiment as it was demonstrated to be last week, it would be only a matter of months...