Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French moved 400,000 soldiers into Algeria. Mobile, hard-hitting French columns inflicted heavy losses on rebel formations and slowly drove them deep into the high plateaus that lie behind Algeria's coastal regions. By the beginning of summer, the rebels were losing their enthusiasm for open combat, and in the Kabylia alone 250 villages once again "rallied to France." With the military campaign going so well, the French government decided it was time to try the second phase of Premier Guy Mollet's policy for pacifying Algeria-the "parallel" program of political and economic reform. As their...
Algeria's rebels, beaten in open combat, decided on a parallel program of their own. They "atomized" their bands and resorted to hit-and-run terrorism-assassination, small-scale ambushes, and intimidation, mostly carried out at night and out of reach of French forces. Last week, the night before the land distribution was to take place at Saint Lucien, a small group of rebels sneaked into town...
...worse than a Communist. He's presidential timber." Since June the government's policy has been to crack down on all dissent. Said Mario Sandoval, secretary-general of the government party, in a speech seconded by Castillo Armas: "Ours is the party of force, of combat and of organized violence-if our enemies...
...John Kriza and consists of 14 dancers drawn from the corps of the Ballet Theatre. The program up to last night included Pas de Deesses, Pas de Deux from Coppelia, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Interplay. Selections scheduled for the rest of the week are Designs With Strings, The Combat, Pas de Deux from Swan Lake, and Fancy Free (choreographed by Jerome Robbins and set to music by Leonard Bernstein...
...matter how real the pain, the reaction to it varies vastly with the individual and the circumstances. Boston's Dr. Henry K. Beecher noted in World War II that only one-fourth of the soldiers seriously wounded in battle complained of pain (their wounds meant the end of combat and return to safety); among civilians with comparable wounds produced by surgery, three-fourths complain. When Dr. Keats slipped such patients injections of simple salt solution instead of the narcotic they expected, 43% said that the pain went away. Other patients, told that they were to get "a new drug...