Word: li
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although his disdain for professional politicians is boundless (he remarked recently to friends: "What after Algeria? Oh, after! We will be back to po-li-tics"), De Gaulle is not insensitive to those pressures that affect politicians in every age and every country. There has been a steady slide of the major French parties toward opposition, chiefly because of increasing discontent with De Gaulle's domestic austerity. Only the hope that he can solve the Algerian dilemma has protected him. In Algeria itself, he has been influenced by the growing evidence that the Moslems once thought riveted to France...
...stupid movie with Can-nd hordes of guest stars EPE) unsuccessfully apes s of the late and great d. Plotless and pointless. at 8:30. LI...
...winning the cold Turandot, is as handsome as any tenor who ever walked the Met stage, has a big, bronze voice that he can fling forth most of the time without strain; but often he lacks taste and sacrifices lyricism to masculinity, style to strut. Anna Moffo, as Liù, makes the part far more than the usual sweet rag doll: singing with impeccable beauty of tone but also with surprising force, she gives the character backbone, thus rendering plausible the scene in which she chooses to die rather than to betray Calaf...
Their odyssey began back in 1949, when crusty old General Li Mi, retreating as the Red Chinese armies advanced into Yunnan province, led some 10,000 of his men across the border to safety in Burma. General Li soon arranged to have supplies (often U.S.-made) flown in from Formosa, launched harassing raids on the Red Chinese across the border. Unfortunately, his troops were equally willing to take on the Burmese, who complained to the U.N. Under pressure, the Nationalist government suspended its aid, and in 1953-54 General Li and some 7,000 guerrillas were flown out to safety...
Predictably excepted were the zealous followers of Labor Leader André Renard. After a harangue from Renard, 600 of his workers rioted through the streets of Liège. Renard's intransigence kept the big steel plants closed, but other Liège strikers deserted him. Streetcars ran and coal mines were operating. Furthermore, Renard had antagonized most of his fellow Socialists. At week's end even he gave up, bowed to a union leaders' vote to end the strike...