Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vive I'indépendance!" he shouted, and three times the crowd roared back. "Vive I'indépendance!" "Vive I'Afrique!" he shrieked in a voice close to frenzy. Once again, the cry was three times repeated. There was no reason for Toure to do more. The crowd had seen and heard him, and that was enough...
...Charles de Gaulle made his dramatic offer to the French African territories: they could have the choice between 1) complete independence, 2) autonomy within the French Community, or 3) the status of a department of France. Toure charged that the whole idea of a French Community-which came close, but not close enough, to the British Commonwealth-would only continue "our status of perpetual dependence, our status of indignity, our status of insubordination." When De Gaulle stopped off at Conakry on his swift tour of Africa before the referendum, Toure thundered in his presence: "We prefer poverty in liberty...
...Close to Discrimination." Khrushchev was in top form on the last day. Labeling Western leaders "dealers in blood, merchants of death," he demanded that "generals who think the U.S. would remain invulnerable in the event of another war should come out of their fool's paradise," and grasp that "coexistence is the paramount task of our time." "We shall win," he cried, "but we'll let you live...
...between our countries that took place in connection with the favorable reception accorded [Deputy Premier] Mikoyan." Picking up President Eisenhower's press-conference comment on Mikoyan's visit, that "you couldn't do this" with Premier Khrushchev, he exclaimed in mock dismay: "This is something very close to discrimination." He invited Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union-"and we don't make this invitation conditional on reciprocity; we don't impose our visits on anybody." To Secretary Dulles' observation that the Soviet Union still seeks cold-war victory, he retorted: "Well, Mr. Dulles...
...trip last August was to London in pursuance of a simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated...