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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when it touched down at Maison Blanche Airport that an Algerian army officer in a paratroop uniform fired a tommy gun in the air to clear a path for him. With sirens screaming, 30 motorcycle cops led the motorcade on a wild ride into downtown Algiers. Switching lanes with abandon and totally disregarding one-way street signs, the cars alternately sped along at 60 m.p.h. or were caught in bumper-to-bumper jams as the screaming populace boiled forward to see its new leader. Finally the caravan reached the prefecture of the Provisional Government, overlooking Algiers' waterfront; carried inside...
Nonviolent resistance also provides a creative force through which men can channelize their discontent. It does not require that they abandon their discontent. This discontent is sound and healthy. Nonviolence saves it from degenerating into morbid bitterness and hatred. Hate is always tragic. It is as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. It distorts the personality and scars the soul. Psychiatrists are telling us now that many of the inner conflicts and strange things that happen in the subconscious are rooted in hate. So they are now saying, "Love or perish." This is the beauty...
Commonwealth nations may also prevent Britain's entry into the Market, Macridis declared. Now the Commonwealth nations receive "preferential treatment for the agricultural products they export to Britain," and thus do not pay any tariffs. If Britain joins the Common Market, she "will have to abandon preferential treatment for the Commonwealth nations" and give it instead to the other members of the Common Market. Macridis declared that this sort of competition would be impossible for the economics of the Commonwealth nations to bear
...traced the development Wittgenstein's theories of beginning with logical , which he later abandon- like all other metaphysical , he discovered, it too was of nonsensical sentences...
...could make many comments on your "Europe" number [July 13], but I am especially entertained by your repeated suggestions that Britain abandoned or was about to abandon "free enterprise" from 1880 on. Not until 1932, under the leadership of Neville Chamberlain, did we follow the bad example set by the Republican Party in 1861 when, by establishing the Morrill Tariff, the United States committed itself to drastic interference with the free enterprise system...