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Word: oases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The explanation offered for the continued police force is that the remnants of the right-wing Secret Army Organization (OAS) constitute a threat to President Charles de Gaulle's life. Although the government now boasts that only 30 OAS terrorists are still at large in France, apologists for the police...

Author: By Michael Lerner, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Paris Police Control Undiminished Although Internal Crises Now Past | 4/11/1963 | See Source »

Although the OAS does pose a continuing threat to do Gaulle's life, several observers have noted that the assassination danger is a convenient pretext for the government. It allows the regime, they say, to maintain heavily armed forces in the capital, a control measure which under other circumstances would...

Author: By Michael Lerner, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Paris Police Control Undiminished Although Internal Crises Now Past | 4/11/1963 | See Source »

"Brazil will uphold its inter-American and Western alliances," promised Foreign Minister Dantas. But at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in January 1962, though he condemned a "Marxist-Leninist government in Cuba," Dantas refused to vote with a two-thirds majority of the hemisphere's nations to expel Cuba from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Brink of Bankruptcy | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

On one matter Kubitschek and Lleras had no difficulty in agreeing: the need for more Latin American participation in the Alliance if it is to succeed at all. In their formal report to the OAS, due later this month, they are expected to bring up the idea of a "parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alianza: Dissatisfaction Down South | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

Between 1940 and 1946 de Gaulle rallied the French Empire against Vichy, forged unity out of the diverse elements of the Resistance, and carried a united France into the battle against Germany. Since his return in 1958 he has ended the Algerian War, broken the OAS, cemented the tie between...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton, | Title: Divorce-Kennedy Style | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

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