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...Europeans in Algeria automatically become citizens for the first five years of independence, but may then opt for French citizenship. Those Europeans who wish to retain French citizenship from the start will be treated as "privileged" foreigners, with property guarantees and their own schools, but they must remain politically inactive...
...talent or, more likely at Harvard, the background. (Some are lazy.) But another group also fails -- a group which is unmistakably bright, full of curiosity and ambition. In their courses, they "under-achieve," for they seem to lack an interest in (and a respect for) the work. They opt for or fall into careers of academic abandon, and, at their best, make brilliant use of Harvard College. As a group they are widely misunderstood, and often confused with cases of "academic suicide"--a phrase describing students who have rebelled against the system with no idea of what they wanted...
...bargained with, and outlasted. Only as they are walled in and wiped out, block by block, do the Jews awaken to the full horror of their fate. Some drag their own screaming relatives to the death trains to buy another day of life-in-death. Others, like Andrei Androfski, opt to sally out of bunkers like Mila 18 and salvage pride and honor in the suicidal, 42-day ghetto uprising that ranks in the legends of heroism as a modern Thermopylae...
...smiling, bareheaded President. First in Kennedy's west-wing office and then over lunch, the two heads of state ranged through the world's manifold crises, lingering longest over Canadian-U.S. problems. Anxious to counteract the impression left by Canadians who argue that their nation should opt out of joint air defense with the U.S., Diefenbaker assured Kennedy that Canada "has not the slightest intention of being neutralist" and intends to remain an active military partner...
...Monckton group included secession only as a "safety valve" and clearly expressed its hope that no state would opt out. But portly Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky was outraged that the word had even been mentioned. The Monckton report is "the death knell of federation," he snapped. "I and my colleagues reject it out of hand." Most white Rhodesians agreed. But no matter what the whites said or thought, Britain was clearly determined to make drastic changes when all sides sat down to discuss the new constitution in December. Addressing the Tories' national convention at Scarborough last week...