Word: commits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the present Executive Committee have refused to commit themselves to any candidate, preferring to wait for the usually gruesome question period before making their weight felt
...told me. 'We should try to associate them in a European framework independent of America.' On this, he left me for the Bahamas." There, according to De Gaulle, Macmillan betrayed him by agreeing instead to accept Polaris force from the U.S. and then to commit it, along with Britain's own new nuclear bombers, to a multinational NATO nuclear force. Shrugging that this "naturally changed the tone" of the Jan. 14 press conference at which De Gaulle gutted Britain's hopes of joining Europe, De Gaulle added testily: "Mr. Macmillan, whom I like...
...suicide. was guru. Rejecting its patents of superiority, Miss McCarthy sees the Glass family as "a terrifying narcissus pool." And it is on the troubling question of Seymour's suicide that she sternly calls to order the little acrobats in Seymour's moral gymnasium. "Did Seymour commit suicide because he had married a phony?" she asks. "Or because he had been lying, his author had been lying, and it was all terrible, and he was a fake...
...even Charles de Gaulle-could say with certainty what form the Polaris offer might finally take. Kennedy promised at Nassau to equip British nuclear submarines with the missile on condition that the government commit its Polaris fleet to NATO for the defense of Western Europe as a whole (TIME, Dec. 28). The terms cabled to De Gaulle were "similar," Administration officials said; they could not be "identical" without drastic changes in U.S. law. For, unlike Britain, France would almost certainly need U.S. help to miniaturize its own crude warheads, which weigh twice as much (1,543 Ibs.) as the Polaris...
India's Nehru had agreed to join Pakistan's President Ayub Khan in seeking an early solution to the Kashmir problem. But now India already was beginning to stall, refused to commit itself on either the date or place of any conference...