Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle did not move against the committees until the referendum gave him true legitimacy and an overwhelming public mandate. Early this month, when a pair of Algerian Moslem visitors privately reported to him that the Algiers Committee of Public Safety had already chosen a list of "approved Moslem candidates'' for next month's election to the French National Assembly, he decided to act. "What imbeciles!" exploded De Gaulle. "The future of Algeria depends on these elections, and here they are circulating lists designed to sabotage all the plans." Still seething, De Gaulle fired off a peremptory directive...
...that De Gaulle has sent emissaries to Cairo to sound out the rebels, no serious cease-fire negotiations have taken place. But last week both Tunisian and Moroccan leaders were trying to persuade the rebels to keep quiet during next month's elections, on the understanding that the Moslem Deputies to be elected in Algeria would be regarded by De Gaulle as his intermediaries with the F.L.N. Whether or not the rebels agreed to this scheme, it was a measure of Charles de Gaulle's political accomplishments that, for the first time in four bloody years, responsible...
...presidency against General Chehab. When trouble started again, he proposed a "save the nation" Cabinet of four leaders of the embattled factions. To offset Karami's Nasserism, he proposed as deputy premier a fellow Maronite Roman Catholic who wants no part of Arab nationalism. A moderate Moslem was picked as No. 3 man, and Edde himself...
...hands last week agreed. The Chamber of Deputies, which only a few days before had threatened to topple the Karami government, gave the four-man Cabinet a unanimous vote of confidence. As the news spread, street fighters and terrorists put down their arms. A delegation from Beirut's Moslem rebels even paid a courtesy coffee call on their former enemies at the headquarters of the Christian Phalange. The U.S. embassy declared the situation so improved that it was safe for American dependents to return to the country. The new Cabinet rescinded an earlier order expelling Nasser's ambassador...
...country was going to the dogs ... I said to the President: 'Are you going to act? If you do not, which Heaven forbid, we [the armed forces] shall force a change.' " Mirza waited for the right moment, hoping to prevent "another Iraq." A police battle with Moslem League demonstrators provided "the perfect opportunity" for surrounding the capital with troops. On the chosen day Mirza wrote out his proclamation dissolving political parties and imposing martial law, had it typed under guard. Assured that the troops were in position, Mirza issued his orders. "I have no sanction...