Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norodom Sihanouk, neutralist Cambodia's chief of state, is not only plagued by the threat of Communism and the problem of providing for his five million people, but also by far more personal cares. "This is to inform all dear citizens," Sihanouk told his subjects in a recent communiqué, "that a number of families lately came to tell me of their sufferings. They complained that His Royal Highness. Prince Norodom Yuvanath, who is my eldest son, had gone to bed with their daughters. On learning this I was sorry for the honor and future of these girls...
...World War I's calamitously costly Ypres offensive, only 49 of 500 Gurkhas in one battalion survived the first day's fighting-but they captured their objective and garnered new laurels, as a laconic British communiqué put it, "at the expense of their existence." Gurkhas were the only regiments to break through the Turkish lines at Gallipoli; in 1919 they chased the Bolsheviks from the Persian border and penetrated deep into the Caucasus before they were called off. In World War II, the 200,000 Gurkhas served with greater distinction in Africa. Burma and Italy-notably Monte...
...from Algeria's Army of Liberation, which has grown increasingly intolerant both of its own moderate government leaders and of what it considers France's tardiness in quelling the Secret Army Organization. In Tunis last week, Algerian army leaders defiantly opened their own information office, started issuing communiqués charging that France has violated the peace agreement. In a challenge aimed as much at their own government as that of Charles de Gaulle, the restive army leaders declared ominously: "We warn the French authorities one last time of the dangers of testing the patience of our fighters...
...Russian press duly blasted Kennedy's announcement that the U.S. will resume nuclear tests in the atmosphere (see THE NATION), and there were some local harassments in Berlin. But after a secret conference with East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, a Khrushchev communiqué omitted the standard polemics, contained only a mild mention of Berlin and West Germany as topics on the agenda. Meanwhile, Khrushchev kept trying to lure various heads of state to Geneva next week so that the 18-nation disarmament talks would, in his chummy phrase, "start in the right direction." No major power succumbed...
Upside Down. In Algeria, an S.A.O. detachment took over the newspaper office of L'Echo d'Oran, put out 20,000 copies of an edition with a huge picture of the S.A.O. chief, ex-General Raoul Salan, and a fiery S.A.O. communiqué, which in their haste they printed upside down. S.A.O. gunmen murdered Commandant Andre Boulle, chief of gendarmerie at Sidi-bel-Abbas, just as he was about to take a plane to Paris to be commended for exceptional service. As the steamer Ville de Bordeaux was about to cast off from Bone harbor bound for France...