Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Going into next week's session with Russia's Andrei Gromyko, the West will operate from a 20-page "Phased Plan," the result of considering hundreds of position papers. In some respects it goes farther than what the West put forward at the fruitless Geneva summit session in 1955. Though still insisting that German reunification must be brought about through free elections, it no longer insists on elections first. And it makes ingenious use of the Russian notion that reunification is something for the two Germanies to solve themselves. Main points...
...year ago, after the May 13 Algerian riots that started Charles de Gaulle on his way to power, one French Deputy pleaded: "Let us vote for him lest we lose the right to vote altogether." Last week, as the new Assembly of the Fifth Republic opened its first regular session, flabbergasted Deputies got a demonstration of just how much they had lost after...
...popular Arabian nights' entertainments are the televised trials staged in Baghdad by the Iraqi People's Court, under the presidency of Premier Karim Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Mahdawi. Premier Kassem himself is known to have turned on the television in the middle of a Cabinet session, listened to the colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed Judge Mahdawi...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 4--The county grand jury will go into special session Wednesday to consider the case of four white men charged with raping a Negro coed...
After graduation from Kilgore High School (where he was a star quarterback), Clements went to Spain to study under Tutor Franklin, trained for more than two years on a rigorous daily schedule that began at 5 a.m. with a three-hour session at a slaughterhouse, where he practiced killing bulls. In Spain he acquired a matador's long sideburns and a sense of tragic ritual that contrasts oddly with his Texas drawl and quick grin. His father, a welding-company owner, backed him all the way, spent $25,000 on his training. "I told that knucklehead...