Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, with the coming of September, the hotels and pensions, camp grounds and cellars are emptying as tourists make their exhausted way north to factory and office. French railroads put on extra trains; airlines had to refuse tearful pleas. Route Nationale No. 7, which loops its way up the Rhone Valley to Paris, was bumper to bumper with homeward-bound cars. Many tourists swore they would never return, but might well change their minds by next summer, especially if they listen to the men of vision on the Riviera who are talking excitedly of building artificial islands...
...harsh, unrelenting continuation of the war until Algeria could be integrated with France. At least three "liberals" urged independence for Algeria, even if it meant negotiating with the F.L.N. terrorists. But by far the greatest number of the 18 ministers favored the third alternative De Gaulle had put before them: an entirely new juridical status for Algeria, to be submitted to Algerians in a referendum. The new status was not clearly defined, though some talked about a "Puerto Rico" solution patterned after Puerto Rico's affiliation with the U.S. De Gaulle was left to decide for himself...
...Gaulle saw for himself the difficulties facing 25,000 French troops as they scour the thick scrub of mountain sides for rebels. He watched helicopters swoop low over a 3,400-square-mile waste of mountains "as full of holes as a Gruyère cheese," as one officer put it, and foot soldiers trudge up and down steep rocky inclines searching caves for the more than 10,000 terrorists hidden in the region...
...division of the Masai into two tribes, one of 60,000 in Kenya, the other of 46,000 in Tanganyika. The Kenya Masai, both better protected by the colonial government and better behaved, found a chance to enjoy their former glories during the Mau Mau troubles, when the British put them to work tracking and killing Kikuyu terrorists. But in Tanganyika the Masai, disorganized and disfranchised, have been increasingly at the mercy of settlers encroaching on their grazing lands. Last week, as a long step toward doing something about it, the Masai installed Edward Boniface Mbarnoti as the first chief...
...shocked thugs who operate the Triad tried psychological retaliation: they put up posters protesting police brutality, many of them signed ominously, "People's Republic of China." But Hong Kong police went ahead anyway last week, convinced that Red China, 15 miles away, was unlikely to intervene on behalf of dope pushers and other spivs, who if caught in Red China for similar activities could get death sentences from the People's courts...