Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Camille Chamoun, 58, one of the world's handsomest chiefs of state, rounds out his six-year term in September and still has not rejected the idea of another. Trim, silver-haired, he took his law degree at the French Jesuit St. Joseph's University in Beirut...
Labor Pains. After his visit to the Turkish quarter, Hugh Foot, looking tired and taut, flew to London to confer with Harold Macmillan's Conservative Cabinet, but, more important, to plead with the Labor Party (to which his brothers Michael and Dingle belong) not to rock the boat with...
The city registrar makes a speech, ringing with fine phrases-"class struggle," "power of the party," "workers' glory and honor." The bridal couple pledge themselves to faithful service of "the workers' and peasants' might," everyone sings the East German national anthem, and children recite "socialistic poems." Fellow...
Abandoned by their idols and outflanked by the Army-which has quietly taken over almost all key posts in the Algerian civil administration-the diehards had little choice but to make what amounted to a humiliating confession of defeat, joining the other members of the Public Safety Committee in a...
Giving a Push. Predictably, this display of weakness in Paris only served to spur Algiers to new assaults. Late in the week, abandoning all attempts to keep open a line of diplomatic retreat, insurgent leaders took a public pledge not to submit to Paris until De Gaulle governed France. The...