Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the F.L.N. and its liaison officer at the U.N. Flying in from New York, Yazid suavely brushed off a horde of reporters and sped away in a black Mercedes to a week of discussion with rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas and his "Cabinet." Their talk revolved around two points: if they rejected De Gaulle's offer out of hand, they would certainly forfeit most of the international sympathy they had won for their cause; but if they accepted all of De Gaulle's terms, including his refusal to recognize the F.L.N. as spokesman...
...first comptroller, had the job of supervising the drawing up and spending of the defense budget. He was the man who had to slice the budgetary pie among the three services-each of which naturally wanted the biggest piece -and then explain and defend the budget before Congress, the Cabinet, and the National Security Council...
...pans in on Spanish Harlem and enters slums where children sleep on pallets and adults line up nine-deep to use the bathroom. But what the cameras actually record is little more than a Puerto Ricochet from the smallest-bore gangster plot in the film maker's gun cabinet...
...kind of solution De Gaulle had in mind, he would be taking a mighty gamble. In the army there would be the risk of attempted revolt by officers adamantly opposed to any solution that did not keep Algeria an integral part of France. In De Gaulle's own Cabinet there would be outraged protests, perhaps even some resignations. And there was considerable doubt that Algeria's rebel leaders would accept De Gaulle's plan, however liberal it might prove; De Gaulle could only hope that his proposals would appeal to so many millions of war-weary Moslems...
...supposedly blase French last week lined up along the Champs Elysees to see the latest movie by Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, the man who virtually invented Brigitte Bardot. Forgetting France's reputation for tolerance, half the Cabinet had insisted on seeing, and in effect censoring, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Affairs), based on an 18th century classic novel about what might be called advanced sex education. The frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before...