Word: conscriptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were setting the target date for a peace treaty between France and the F.L.N. in terms of days, instead of weeks or months. Reportedly, the French government was ready with stacks of freshly printed posters announcing the ceasefire. One poster showed a Moslem F.L.N. soldier and a French army conscript shaking hands under the legend: "Peace in Algeria...
...population has doubled, is now approaching 1,000,000. The first whiff of prosperity came when France increased its Algerian army first to 200,000, then to 500,000 men to fight the F.L.N. rebels. Most of the new troops were reservists drawing far higher pay than the ordinary conscript rate, and produced unheard-of business for Algiers' bars, restaurants and shops. And with an army to supply, farmers, vintners and the purveyors of a hundred-and-one small items of supply started piling up fortunes...
...prepared to have enacted a new "public security" bill that will give him more drastic powers than any colonial governor has ever had in a British territory not in a state of war or emergency. The governor would be able to control the territory's press, prohibit meetings, conscript labor and supplies, and detain troublemakers without trial. "It is with no enthusiasm that we who have been nurtured in the tradition of English law are compelled to introduce such measures," said Sir Evelyn, but the British strongly fear that Northern Rhodesia may yet become another Kenya...