Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When De Gaulle emerged from the somnolent village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises last May, France was sliding hopelessly into civil war. "The carrots are cooked, the carrots are cooked," blared Radio Algiers, repeating with monotonous insistence the code phrase which signified that the rebellious generals of Algeria were ready to land their paratroops in Metropolitan France. In Paris white-faced ministers of the Fourth Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris...
...broke into revolt last May, De Gaulle was, in his own words and in a sense that had never been true before, "ready to assume the powers of the Republic." He knew precisely what assets he had?his own immense prestige and the fact that the only alternative was civil war. His technique was very much like that of the bandit hero of a play he had written at 15. In De Gaulle's youthful play the bandit, as he strips a traveler of his belongings, periodically abandons flowing Alexandrine verse to declare simply: "Besides, I have two pistols...
...stagnant fight for Cuba's provinces began to look like a war. All week long, Rebel Leader Fidel Castro's radio blared victory, reported forces sweeping through town after town in Oriente and Las Villas provinces, routing small garrisons, setting up rebels as "civil authorities." The excited trumpeting was probably overdone. But there was little question that the rebels were on the move, or that Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army was retreating to defensive ground in Cuba's big cities...
...losers in the spreading war are Cuba's people. In Oriente the civil war moved the Roman Catholic Church to issue its own sad communique last week. Said Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes: "We have entered a new and horrible phase-hunger produced by war. Christian hearts cannot be unmoved by the plight of nearly all our towns and villages, filling with victims of hunger and caught in the path of death...
Northwest was also helped by Nyrop's intimate acquaintance with official Washington, where he served as head of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (1950-51) and the Civil Aeronautics Board (1951-52). When President Eisenhower overturned a CAB decision in 1955 and ordered Northwest off the Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run in favor of Pan Am, scrappy Don Nyrop flew into Washington, rallied so much political support that Ike returned the route to Northwest, admitted that he had "made an error." Last month Northwest, whose domestic runs had been limited to Northern states, opened a fat Chicago-Florida route, worth...