Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With no sizable community of French colons to harass and badger it, the Paris government has been able to conduct a far more consistent policy than it has elsewhere. When Socialist Guy Mollet became Premier in 1956, he appointed as Minister of Overseas Territories the far-sighted mayor of Marseilles, Gaston Defferre. While his colleagues busied themselves with a disastrous Algerian policy that eventually led to rebellion, Defferre drafted a really effective loi-cadre (skeleton law) for French West Africa. Though the chief executive of each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations...
...people for U.S. help to France over the heads of the U.S. Government, and the nuisance he was making of himself trying to kick up an expedition of American adventurers against the U.S.'s Spanish neighbors in Florida. Thundered the President: "What must the world think of such conduct and the government of the United States in submitting to it?" He called in his Cabinet and decided to demand Genêt's recall as persona non grata...
...Lebanese troops, tanks and barbed wire surrounded Beirut's Parliament; soldiers frisked all comers except Deputies and diplomats, even examined newsmen's pencils to make sure they were not bombs. Men for whom the government had long since put out arrest warrants showed up under special safe-conduct, and there were some curious confrontations. The eagle-beaked boss of Baalbek's rebels strode up to Foreign Minister Charles Malik, target of the most savage opposition attacks, and with a big smile, shook hands. In trooped other rebels, all wanted by the cops, to be greeted with handshakes...
...months a year v. the present seven, would be able to overturn a Premier only by means of a censure motion approved by an absolute majority. More crippling yet, the Assembly would have virtually no direct control over defense, basic economic policy or-apart from treaty ratification-over the conduct of foreign affairs. Any legislation which the government demanded as a matter of confidence would go into effect without a vote unless the Assembly passed a censure motion within three days...
...Dayton, when a judge told Guillermo Angel Valerin that his fine for drunk and disorderly conduct would be "diez y ocho dólares y sesenta centavos" ($18.60), Mrs. Valerin said: "I'm sorry, judge, but we'd understand you much better if you spoke English...