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...Republic record) was ended, Mollet explained that, at President Coty's request, he had agreed to stay in office. "Resigning today might seem, to some people, like an attempt to run away," he said. Far from running away, Mollet was sending Foreign Minister Christian Pineau to demand a showdown against Egypt in the U.N.' Security Council...
Premier Guy Mollet faces a showdown today in the National Assembly on his demand that Frenchmen ante up more taxes to pay the cost of fighting rebellion in Algeria...
Thousands of Haitians, largely illiterate, sharpened machetes and armed themselves with catapults and other weapons for possible showdown fights with police...
Several H.Y.R.C. members predicted a showdown between the conservatives and the liberals in the club, if the Planning Committee agrees to call another meeting...
...From then on the showdown was inevitable. In early 1954, as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Joe joined battle with the Army over a none-too-bright McCarthy staffer named G. David Schine, of the millionaire Schine hotel family. Army Draftee Schine, Joe charged, was being used by the Army as a hostage to keep the McCarthy committee from finding out, among other things, why a brigadier general named Ralph Zwicker had permitted the honorable discharge of a Red-tinted Army dentist named Irving Peress. For 36 days televised hearings made Joe's nasal rhythms...