Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble in the House. Ever since he introduced his Police Duties Execution Bill to cope with the nation's alarming rise in crime and labor violence (TIME, Nov. 3), Kishi has been denounced by the unions and the Socialists for wanting to return to harsh prewar police rule. Last...
Man in Armor. The time had come to stand up and be counted. Paratroop General Jacques Massu, the figurehead co-president of the Algiers Public Safety Committee, promptly if grumpily strode into a committee meeting, accompanied by subordinates in white uniforms, to announce: "Gentlemen, in execution of the order of...
Newsman, playwright, novelist and Hollywood script mechanic, Ben (The Front Page) Hecht, 63, has always been a fast man with the spoken word. He is so fast, in fact, that ever since he took over a TV weeknight interview show on Manhattan's WABC this fall, his guests have...
De Gaulle will undoubtedly become that President in December (he has absolute emergency powers, without hindrance, as Premier in the meantime). The constitutional President will have the authority to appoint-and discharge-Premiers who "shall direct the operation of the government" and "ensure the execution of the laws." The President...
The F.L.N., loud in its denunciation of such French "barbarities," was no less brutal to French soldiers, European settlers or their own reluctant Moslem countrymen. In May 1957, to discourage the villagers of Kabylia from rallying to the cause of Messali Hadj-who had long since become the F.L.N.'...