Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road. In Cairo the F.L.N.'s government in exile, which had been proclaiming its eagerness to talk peace, now betrayed its fear that De Gaulle had the upper hand. Premier Ferhat Abbas bluntly rejected the idea of going to Paris, which would seem like surrender, insisted that negotiations take place in "some neutral country." Yet De Gaulle had placed the F.L.N. rebels in a delicate position. For the first time, Paris had a government not about to topple at any moment, and a new sense of destiny had swept through France, and could easily spread to the Moslems...
...final airlift of 2,000 men to Cyprus. To do so, they had to overfly Nasser's Syria. But with Nasser's consent, Norway's General Odd Bull posted U.N. supervisory teams at Syrian airport control towers for the estimated five days the airlift would take...
...police today are circumscribed by so many restrictions, imposed in the name of civil rights, that they cannot even arrest a drunk until he hits someone. More than 450 gangs (with a membership of 12,000) roam the streets of Tokyo, and the police say they are powerless to take preventive action against them. Communist-led strikers and terrorists still control the northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take their own photographers along with them to demonstrations...
...suffered a stroke; only last month he was hospitalized in Detroit for exhaustion and a general checkup. His U.S. colleagues, Cardinals Spellman and Mclntyre, reached his bedside in the North American College just after he died; saddened, they gave their dead friend absolution, and left almost immediately to take their places in the solemn procession of the cardinals into the conclave area (see above...
...counterparts, but if they literally did not know where their next meal was coming from, they refused to worry about it. The research team was unanimous that the Haitians slept more, worried less, lived at a slower, less stressful pace (although they were obliged by lack of transportation to take more exercise). Said Dr. Groom: "The life of the American Negro is inherently more competitive...