Word: oui
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUEBEC-OUI: OTTAWA-NON (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). An NBC News special on Canadian nationalism...
...Ahmed ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, he took a cut at that African holy of holies, nonalignment. "We all say we are neutral, but we all favor anybody who helps us," Tsiranana said. "If you ask me the truth, I'll say mais oui, I am allied." Then he hit home with a telling blow: "We all regret Patrice Lumumba's death, but who amongst us has not executed opponents? Have you never signed an order to execute one of your rivals?" The reference was particularly timely, for vociferous objections advanced by some O.A.U...
...First Mobile Brigade searched his apartment; in it they found the lined rose-tinted pad on which all 58 of the strangler's messages had been written. After 24 hours of grilling, LeÚger burst into tears and admitted: "Oui, je suis bien I'assassin du petit Luc." He was drawn to the little boy, he explained, because "he seemed as unhappy as I was when...
While pro-Senghor demonstrators chanted, "A single hat on a single head," more than 1,000,000 Senegalese shuffled to the polls and handed Senghor a 99.5% oui on a new Senghor-tailored constitution. True to the slogan, the new charter scraps Senegal's two-man, President-Premier system in favor of a single, strong presidency for Senghor...
...independent judiciary empowered to reject unconstitutional measures. Moreover, the President can bypass a balky Assembly at will by taking controversial issues to the people; he has already used the referendum seven times. While De Gaulle calls this process "direct democracy," constitutional lawyers object that the right to answer oui or non to a government's proposals is no substitute for democratic debate. De Gaulle shrugs aside such remonstrances. "Foam," he cries, "nothing but the foam of the wave. The depths of the popular wave are with me." The election results bore...