Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pierre-Henri Simon, a left-wing Roman Catholic intellectual, recently stirred Paris with a controversial book on Algeria, Contre la Torture. Simon reproduces affidavits by torture victims, statements by French priests and extracts of journals of French army and police officers, and he quotes a letter from a soldier: "On the afternoon of Dec. 3 some gendarmes invited some soldiers to watch tortures of two Arabs arrested the night before. The first torture consisted in suspending the two men, entirely nude, by the feet, hands tied behind their backs, and plunging their heads into a pail of water for long...
...decision to pull his country's troops out of Gaza and Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer or two at the cops...
...care to follow the C.P. through its early history of heresy, splinter groups and purges. From a host of names, Historian Draper has underlined one that serves to tell the story of all. Louis C. Fraina was the "one man who led the way to a pro-Communist Left Wing," and he was once so important, says Draper sarcastically, that William Z. Foster in a 600-page History of the Communist Party of the United States mentions him not once...
...wing on Langdell Hall will provide more classrooms, library facilities, and offices for the program, and a $500,000 dormitory will accomodate 70 students enrolled in the program...
...Langdell wing wil be located between the present north and west wings of the building, and the dormitory will be situated along Massachusetts Avenue in the area now occupied by Kendall House and the Chancery Club...