Word: communique
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After only two days of discussion, Touré and Nkrumah issued a ringing communiqué: "Inspired by the example of the 13 American colonies, which on attainment of their independence constituted themselves into a confederacy which ultimately developed into the United States of America," the two nations, though separated by the French Ivory Coast. would join in a United Republic. "As a first step, we have agreed to adopt a union flag and to develop between our two governments the closest contacts . . . especially in the fields of defense and foreign and economic affairs...
...welcome Khrushchev's designation of Nehru as the appropriate man to represent Asia. Not only did the Mao-Khrushchev talks kill the U.N. summit conference; they also involved Khrushchev in a display of belligerence that went far beyond his usual pro forma reminders of Russian military power. The communiqué itself was disfigured by a gratuitous threat "to wipe out clean the imperial aggressors and so establish everlasting peace." And on the heels of this saber-rattling, Peking calculatedly added to the rustle of tensions by moving MIG-17 jet fighters into several previously unused airfields along the South...
That evening, tacked on as a fourth paragraph, Dulles' penciled promise to back the "security and defense" of all cosigners transformed the London session's communiqué into a "declaration." The declaration, explained Dulles, makes the U.S. a "full partner" with surviving Baghdad Pact members, and could supersede the Baghdad Pact, should Iraq drop...
...book, Author Remarque swapped the communiqué quiet of the Western Front for the incessant noise of the Eastern Front in World War II, and Director Douglas Sirk has turned a true camera eye on the bleak grey vista of the once-proud German army in shattered retreat, its beaten soldiers yearning only for a hunk of bread and a hole in which to hide from the Russian artillery. But somebody forgot that there was a war on: the hero (John Gavin), a dutiful Wehrmacht private, gets a three-week furlough back to Germany, and from there on, the movie...
When newsmen tracked down the Algerians in Switzerland and Tunisia, they found them hobnobbing with F.L.N. agents, were handed an F.L.N. communiqué stating that the footballeurs refused any longer to help French sport "at the moment when France makes merciless war on their country. They have placed the independence of Algeria above all, giving Algerian youth proof of their courage and disinterestedness." A "Free Algerian" team would now be formed to barnstorm through the Middle East, said F.L.N...