Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earnest Hope. "I want only effective protection from gangsters and crooks for the people of America," said the President. "Chief among the abuses," as he sees them...
...fire engines had been headed for a minor flare-up in some trash barrels a few feet from where Rutherford "had parked his death-laden truck. Assistant Fire Chief Roy McFarlane thought he had things under control, sent one fireman to the hospital with burned hands. City Patrolman Don DeSues, 32, took over traffic direction at the nearest corner. Suddenly, George Rutherford's truck went off with a blast bigger than a World War II blockbuster, dug a 50-ft.-wide crater 20 ft. deep, pulverized six blocks of business buildings, transients' apartments and homes, smashed the windows...
...Gaulle, in turn, divined untapped organizing ability in the young scholar, soon named him chief of the Free French intelligence service-a job that gave Soustelle his first taste of intrigue and a graduate education in Communist political techniques. Soustelle's war was spent in battling for the Gaullist cause not only against the Germans but also against Allied intelligence services, including rival French units backed by Britain and the U.S. When he returned to liberated Paris in 1944, he recalls, "I did not expect to be praised, but at least to be noticed...
...Will Return." In the first postwar years. Soustelle's political fortunes were inseparable from De Gaulle's. He became first his Chief of Information, then his Minister of Colonies. And when De Gaulle, disgusted with partisan bickering, dramatically retired to the rural peace of Colombey-les-Deux Eglises, Soustelle followed him into the wilderness, became chief of the Gaullist opposition forces in Parliament...
...Cabinet. As the top political authority in France's two Saharan departments (Saoura and Oases), Soustelle supervises the affairs of 93 municipal governments that he has established in the desert, bears responsibility for the security of Reggan, France's atomic test area in the Sahara. And as chief of O.C.R.S. (Common Organization for the Saharan Regions), he is empowered to negotiate pacts with the four newly independent African members of the French Community who share the western and southern Sahara with France...