Word: ahd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving away from, not toward, France. It was hard to see how that trend could be reversed by the offer of a pact which would, in effect, force both governments to ratify permanent French control of Algeria. Speaking for Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans alike, Morocco's semiofficial Al Ahd Al Jadid last week snapped: "The French proposition is an effort to turn attention away from the Algerian drama and to set a trap with the object of consolidating colonialism in North Africa on a new basis...
...women, and children piling out of New York's Penn Station by the special train-load practically ignored large front-page headlines in the DAily News ("Undeclared War Is On--MacArthur") in favor of the sports section, where it was reported that the reliable Jersey house ahd established Army as a 19 and one-half point favorite to defeat Navy. And Navy, as later events proved, refused to take that seriously...