Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that private talks are being carried on by the French with F.L.N. representatives. Premier Debré insisted in the Assembly that De Gaulle's October invitation to Algerian leaders to come to Paris under safe-conduct to negotiate "a peace of the brave" was still open. "No other offer," said Debré, "has been or could ever be envisaged." Yet such denials did not exclude the possibility that contacts with the rebels (if not actual negotiations) have been resumed...
...initial calm and generally welcoming acceptance of the King's speech in the Congo, many Belgiums feared that their government may have waited too long to make its offer. In Léopoldville Belgian paratroopers still patrolled the streets, hundreds of whites are keeping revolvers handy, and as long as the city's three top burgomasters (all black) remained in jail, disorder might strike at any time. Warned the Gazet van Antwerpen: "With oppressed hearts we wonder whether the people who yesterday stood against each other as enemies will be able to collaborate...
...this initiative, and it is understandable, though perhaps unwise, that three of the nine MeBAC members are CDF representatives. MeBAC has now ruled, however, that exclusive use of the Arts Center theatre during the first season is to be given to the CDF, and it has refused to offer equal time (even on an alternate season basis) to the only other non-profit classical drama group in the Boston area--the Group 20 Players of Wellesley...
...response to an offer by Gregory B. Stone '58 to sell his beard for $25,000, Scott shouted, with a discharge of saliva, "Man. when I see the money, he gets the locks...
...Tribune, for $12 million, and by disposing of several other properties, Field raised the $18 million cash that Jack Knight asked for his 75% controlling interest in the News. Ultimately the buy will cost Field another $6,000,000. as minority stockholders, with some 120.000 shares, respond to his offer to buy them out at $50 a share-5 points over the market price. For this he gets an afternoon circulation of 547,796 and a paper which under Knight has turned an average annual net profit...