Word: govern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...held in the Pacific, a nuclear bomb is a marvelous device. "There's hardly anything more technically fascinating to contemplate than a bomb," he says. "It's a little universe unto itself, one in which we don't know the detailed physical laws which govern it." When he waited on a dark New Mexico mountainside to watch the world's first atomic bomb explode 17 years ago, Ogle was elated. "It was the biggest dawn we'd ever seen," he recalls. "A fantastic moment. When it was over, I felt a sense of great relief...
...when squabbling broke out among the leaders, notably KANU'S grey-bearded Jomo ("Burning Spear'') Kenyatta. 72. and solemn Ron ald Ngala, 39, president of KADU,* and since 1961 top African in the Kenya cabinet. Though Kenyatta and Ngala will jointly head Kenya's interim govern ment, they sounded like enemies. Bragged Ngala to his supporters on arrival: "KADU has emerged triumphant and has won out against Kenyatta.'' Old Jomo had a sneering retort: "We would have returned with Kenya's complete independence if it hadn't been for KADU leaders...
...generals and admirals were adamant. The Per&243;nistas, though democratically elected in one of the freest elections in Argentine history, must never take office. In no position to resist, Frondizi agreed, and found the powers in the constitution to make it legal.* He then appointed "interventors" to govern five Argentine provinces, including populous, highly industrialized Buenos Aires, fired his civilian Cabinet and proposed a new coalition government, half of whose members would be military men. When Frondizi took this enforced solution to the People's Radicals, whose support he would need in the fractured Congress, they refused...
...with patience, skill, trickery, courage and a never-failing sense of destiny, finally this week could announce the ceasefire. In a seven-minute radio and TV speech, he declared that it was France's "national interest" which had commanded her to let the Algerians govern themselves. He asked the million disaffected Europeans to stay on and cooperate with the new Algeria. Paying tribute to "the glorious losses" sustained by the French army, De Gaulle applauded its discipline, despite "the solicitations of criminal adventurers." He alluded to General Raoul Salan's terrorist S.A.O. by announcing that a common-sense...
...cease-fire negotiators wrangled at Evian-les-Bains. The major issues had all been settled: a transition period for Algeria, leased bases for the French, guarantees for Europeans. But last-minute stumbling blocks appeared. Among the chief problems was the composition of the Provisional Executive, which is to govern Algeria during the ceasefire; on this, the F.L.N. demanded a twelve-man French-Moslem committee with an F.L.N. nominee as chairman. Another issue: the powers and strength of the Force Locale to police the ceasefire; here the F.L.N. wanted more Moslem members, while Paris wanted a French commander. Compromise finally settled...