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...Pakistan's biggest daily newspaper, Jang, that "the U.S. Vice President has invited Bashir, a camel-cart driver, to come to America. My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He will go by jet and stay in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York." Faced with a féte accompli, Lyndon did the sporting thing: at a televised People-to-People luncheon, he suggested that it would be nice if someone helped Bashir get to the U.S. People-to-People Program, an independent group of international-minded Americans, promptly volunteered. So did the Reader's Digest...
...launch an invasion of Tunisia and wipe out the so-far-untouched F.L.N. bases where an estimated 20,000 rebels rest, train and refit for battle inside Algeria. In short, Challe saw himself doing the dirty work for De Gaulle and then handing over to him a fait accompli that De Gaulle could not easily refuse...
...this general argument revealed an implicit assumption in the course of their statements. "All this," as one Faculty member told us, "is a question only because he wasn't silently and anonymously murdered." It would appear that several, at least, would have rested more comfortably with such a falt accompli...
...Fate Accompli. In Southampton, England, 21-year-old Pakhar Singh told army recruiters that he had hitchhiked 12,000 miles from Malaya through India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland and France to join the British army because he wanted "to see the world...
...resignation damaged the work of the commission, but a new appointee of similar stature can still pick up the pieces. It is unfortunate that the situation ever had to arise, but presented with a fait accompli, the Administration must act, and act with speed...