Word: faites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This pathetic situation would not exist today had the President acted courageously, and staged a rapid, forceful and decisive invasion of Cuba, presenting Russia with a fait accompli...
...support of the United Nations to go in and make this a full-out war. The thing started in such a way that everybody was a little bit fooled, and when suddenly the Soviets came in in strength with their tank divisions and it was a fait accompli, it was a great tragedy and disaster...
...Senate." Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey threatened reprisal at the next session: "We're going to have some legislative regurgitation." Cried Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, normally mild to a fault: "We have taken a shellacking, and I think it's outrageous." Then the Senate, faced by the House fait accompli, swallowed hard, approved the bill, and adjourned...
...planned to launch an invasion of Tunisia and wipe out the so-far-untouched F.L.N. bases where an estimated 20,000 rebels rest, train and refit for battle inside Algeria. In short, Challe saw himself doing the dirty work for De Gaulle and then handing over to him a fait accompli that De Gaulle could not easily refuse...