Word: launched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a victory was certainly not possible in Algeria, where 500,000 French soldiers have spent more than six years fruitlessly chasing handfuls of F.L.N. guerrillas over mountains and through deserts. To many observers, it seemed clear Challe 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...
...West's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has won affiliates in 22 African nations with the argument that the worker fares best under demo cratic unionism in a free society. Last week the two systems clashed head-on at a 38-nation conference in Casablanca to launch the All-African Trade Union Federation, pet project of Nkrumah and such pals as Guinea's Sekou Toure...
Publisher Rospach has never been bothered by such criticism. The Overseas Weekly is the type of tabloid that she had in mind in 1950 when, after serving a stint on Stars and Stripes, she decided to launch a paper that would begin where the semi-official Stars and Stripes left off. By 1953 she was serializing ex-G.I. George Jorgensen's operation (CHRISTINE CASTRATION RAPPED) and the details of Call Girl Pat Ward's journey into prostitution. The USAREUR (U.S. Army in Europe) command removed Overseas Weekly from Stars and Stripes newsstands all over Europe. Owner Rospach...
...Protestant loyalties. Roman Catholic armies looted the place in the Thirty Years' War (much of the library vanished into the Vatican). France's Louis XIV sacked it again; it reopened under Jesuit auspices in 1700 and foundered until the 19th century, when Protestants returned to launch the university's renowned reputation...
...resistant metal wires, the Flex Wing may be able to ease space vehicles down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. One candidate for this treatment, say Ryan engineers, might be the elaborate eight-engine booster of the Saturn rocket, which will crash to costly destruction a short time after launch unless it is landed gently...