Word: conference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algeria. The exchanges were so frosty that the Algerians complained of "a Panmunjom atmosphere." Boumendjel asked whether F.L.N. "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, if he came to Paris, would be free to move about, whether he could be sure of treating with President de Gaulle personally, whether F.L.N. negotiators could confer with Ben Bella, the F.L.N. leader whom the French kidnaped four years ago on a flight between Morocco and Tunisia. Moris relayed each question to Premier Michel Debre, who in turn relayed it to De Gaulle. The answers: De Gaulle would certainly not see Ferhat Abbas until a cease-fire...
...Buenos Aires, his first stop, where he was ostensibly an honored guest at Argentina's 150th birthday celebration. Dorticós slipped away to confer secretly with chiefs of the anti-government Peronista Metal Workers Union...
...Three doses of Salk vaccine are only 80% to 90% effective in conferring immunity, said two U.S. Public Health Service experts. Advocates of live-virus vaccines maintain that their preparations, taken in one or three doses, confer immunity in 90% or more of the vaccinated, as measured by laboratory tests of blood antibodies against polio viruses. But do the oral vaccines really give such a high proportional protection against paralysis? And are they safe? On these questions the scientists divided down the middle...
...would give him power to dissolve Parliament and veto its acts whenever he felt that an emergency required it. "In the confident expectation of an early surrender of sovereignty to a union of African states and territories," says Nkrumah's draft constitution, published this week, "the people now confer on Parliament the power to provide for the surrender of the whole or any part of the sovereignty of Ghana...
...each stop the Americans split into two-and three-man teams of eyes and ears for Ike to confer with Latin American leaders around conference tables, at luncheon and dinner. In Argentina, one group of committeemen closeted themselves for 1½ hours with Economy Minister Alvaro Alsogaray while another met with eleven top educators, heard earnest argument for more fellowships for study in the U.S. In Chile, the team of Holland and Milton Eisenhower listened to Chilean university heads explain their dilemma as a conflict between a developing nation's obligation to concentrate on technical learning without neglecting liberal...