Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regularly for the past two years, public-opinion pollsters have been asking Frenchmen the same question and getting the same answer: As between independence for Algeria and continued war, which do you choose? The response has not varied: 70% have stuck to fighting on, though 400,000 French soldiers are tied up in Algeria and the war costs nearly $4,000,000 a day. Last week, with the revolt still far from the often promised "final quarter-hour," the French Assembly came to a moment of historic decision...
...Force alone would also not satisfy the Socialists and the Catholic M.R.P., whose support his minority government needs to survive. Over violent objections from his own Cabinet, Radical Socialist Bourgès-Maunoury hammered out a loi-cadre (skeleton law) for Algeria that by the current standards of French opinion was almost generous. It would divide Algeria into half a dozen semi-autonomous regions in which Moslems would for the first time have equal voting rights with Algerian Frenchmen. After two years the regional assemblies were to be allowed to elect a "federal executive council." "With the loi-cadre," said...
...opinion of the student body on this matter was quite opposed to the administrations'. Students felt that the death was just an unfortunate accident. One student said, "That was just a tough break. Weekends like that are happening all the time up here. There's not much need for all the fuss...
...only commend the forthrightness and variety of opinion expressed, but the value of membership in organizations devoted more to intra-club power struggles than to working to implement the ideals of a party can only be questioned...
...statement reads: "The Student Council Executive Committee met with Dean Watson, Assistant Dean (John W.) Ballard, and Mr. Dustin Burke (director of Student Employment) this afternoon and discussed the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. questions. While we have not drawn up any specific recommendations, we are of the following opinion at this time...