Word: apach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French town of Apach, De Gaulle boarded the carnation-decked pleasure boat Strasbourg, along with West German President Heinrich Lübke and Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, to begin the four-hour cruise along the Moselle to Trier, across the German border. There, De Gaulle hailed the project as one of "the first fruits" of the recent Franco-German rapprochement. After "so much pain to which this river was a sad witness for centuries," said he, "we have been able to sail down it together, without meeting any resistance except that of ribbons...
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