Word: point
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Under these circumstances, and despite the temptation to win friends in the Assembly, the U.S. must help de Gaulle in the coming debate. Opponents of France will cry colonialism; France can point out that it has freed 13 new states south of the Sahara. Parallels will be drawn with the Congo crisis, in which the UN could display a remarkable capacity to act; but the complexities of France's entanglement with Algeria preclude any solution along the lines suggested by the Congo...
...necessary postulate for any real settlement of the Algerian crisis is a French government strong enough to command the support of the French people and the obedience of the military and colons in Algeria. This is an obvious point. Not so obvious is the fact that de Gaulle's regime is the only French government in seven years which stands a better-than-even chance of staying in the saddle while it negotiates an Algerian peace...
...Throughout his turbulent existence, man has lived by the sword. War, today is not considered a very serious undertaking when we openly pledge to sacrifice our youth in holding two small islands, for one dictator, against another. ("Freedom what crimes are committed in thy name") Man has reached a point in his evolution, where he must choose one of two roads--sanity or suicide--and his mistakes of the past plus the dictates of common sense, should be sufficient to guide him towards the creation of a more intelligent and orderly world.--He must chart his course for the years...
Last week Ford took three races and Lehman two to tie Yale and M.I.T. for first in the NEISA Team Racing Eliminations. To break the tie, however, the committee gave Yale laurels and M.I.T. second on the basis of point determinations...
...Crimson suffered a similar almost win in the Big Three Championships two weeks ago. Racing from the Yale Yacht Club, they tailed both Princeton and the Elis by a slim point margin...