Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That line may have been overemotional, but the rest of the show invited emotion. The scattered, somewhat uncertain opening scenes were followed by startling juxtaposed flashes of irony. A flat-bed truck jammed with migrant families who were allowed to rest only every ten hours was compared to a cattle train, which by federal law has to stop for five of every 28 hours. A rat-infested hovel housing six was contrasted with a nearby $500,000 stable for race horses. And Murrow noted that while the Federal Government spends $6,500,000 annually to protect migratory wild life. Congress...
...usual, just what De Gaulle's Algerian policy was remained somewhat uncertain. In a front-page editorial, Paris' normally pro-Gaullist Le Figaro grumbled that "it is not excessive for a democratic nation, in circumstances as grave as these, to ask to be informed-and clearly." Yet even such senior Cabinet officers as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville were still unsure of De Gaulle's ultimate aim: whether he still hopes to keep Algeria federated with France or is reconciled to its total independence...
...effective warning system, says the O.R.O. report, is an indispensable first step toward an adequate civil defense. It is "impractical" to expect a nuclear-attack shelter program to get under way "as long as it is uncertain or unlikely that the shelters could be reached in time...
Spring Prospects Uncertain...
Student rallies have been banned. Newspapers are sporadically "withheld" from the public, as are many books on the Algerian War. There is great justification for Sartre's recent comment, "Algerian independence is already a certainty. What is uncertain is the future of Democracy in France...