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When the rebellion began. Moslem nationalists were convinced that Algeria was a land of untold riches that France was picking clean. To their distress, many now see that France was sitting atop a poor country, not a rich...
Inherent Vice? While rescue workers were still combing the marshes for bodies, FAAdministrator Najeeb Halaby flew in from Washington with a team of experts to investigate the causes of the crash. There had been no indication of an explosion or fire in the air, and not a word of distress from Veteran (32 years) Pilot James T. S. Heist, 56. The 707s have previously flown millions of miles without a commercial-passenger fatality in the U.S. What had happened? The steering mechanism may have jammed when Pilot Heist started to turn the plane, or the jet may have been climbing...
Belin Expresses "Distress...
...Monday's meeting, when Belin objected to considering a few routine matters which had not been submitted before last Thursday, Vellucci asked to have them all considered emergencies, and thus subject to immediate action. Belin finally rose to express "distress at the way the new rules are being side-stepped...
...little. A university which tries to regulate its students' use of liquor, which is dominated by a business school just one step up from vocational training, and which requires its freshmen to wear dinks, does not foster a newspaper so excellent that administrators can watch its freedom without occasional distress...