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...against the weight of global financial opinion and the advice of most of his own ministers, he stunned the world by refusing to devalue the franc, which was already weak and unsteady. Pompidou, a former Rothschild banker, could not bring himself to defy reality. "Common sense advises us to align the franc on a rate recognized in foreign markets," he explained to the French in a special statement. "We content ourselves with taking note of a fact and acting...
...requested a session with President Nixon in Washington. Secretary of State William Rogers, on a visit to Saigon, suggested a rendezvous halfway. The danger of antiwar demonstrations, at least, should be absent at the U.S.-owned garrison isle of Midway. Regardless of the setting, the Midway meeting-designed to align U.S. and South Vietnamese positions for the peace negotiations-may well be more important than any of the five previous summits that have punctuated...
LAZARD: Dr. Pusey, you said a moment ago that the student body felt the university administrators were possibly worshipping false gods. What can administrators at Harvard and other universities do to better align themselves with the values of the young...
...what Britain wanted to discuss was the Common Market, a subject technically off-limits to the WEU. Foreign Minister Michel Debré once more raised De Gaulle's favorite specter of Anglo-Saxon conspiracy. Debré declared haughtily: "France considers that the British, who are always inclined to align themselves behind American positions, are not yet ready to join the European community, whose vocation is independence...
MOST PEOPLE assume that if they don't align their single vote with a mass movement of thousands, they can't possibly determine the result of the election. They're wrong...