Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...I.M.F., which must approve devaluation of any of its members, was notified of the plan on Friday night, and at 8 a.m. Saturday each of its directors received a telephone call summoning him to a meeting that morning in Washington. The directors gave tentative approval to Britain's plan (they are to vote formally on the matter this week), and that approval was received in London about 5 p.m. Some four hours after that, having worked out a few more details, Chancellor Callaghan made his historic announcement...
...Though the Tories would certainly demand a censure vote, Wilson, with Labor's 80-plus seat majority, would almost as certainly win it. And unlike Attlee, who devalued in 1949 with only a few months of his term left, Wilson has until 1971 before he must call a general election. If devaluation at last begins to set Britain on the road to economic health, Wilson could go to the country by then with less trepidation...
...coalition defended their actions as necessary for Germany's welfare, promised to press hard for Socialist goals when the country can better afford them. Brandt managed to defuse the conference by warning the Christian Democrats not to expect the Socialists to be "meek as lambs." "I call the Grand Coalition neither a marriage of love nor a shotgun marriage," he said, "but a question of practical politics." After that, the Socialist delegates departed, considerably meeker themselves...
...diary March 21. "I asked him to go organize a network of support in France, where he would return after passing through Havana. He wants to marry his girl and have a son." Then on March 25: "Long oral report on the situation to the Frenchman. We decided to call the movement the National Liberation Front of Bolivia...
...British departure is all but complete. The tax-free shops of Aden's Steamer Point, which once swarmed with cruise-ship tourists, are now boarded up and deserted. The Crescent Hotel, hub of colonial life, is virtually empty. Aden harbor, no longer a port of call, was filled last week with the glowering grey warships of the British fleet, including the 43,000-ton aircraft carrier H.M.S. Eagle. All but 3,000 of the 12,000-man garrison have already been evacuated by ship and plane, most to British bases in Bahrain or Masqat and Oman; the rest will...