Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican communiqué says that "difficulties of a practical and hygienic nature were cited in the matter of restoring the practice of administering Communion under two species." What does that mean...
...French naval base of Mers-el-Kebir." According to a later Algerian account of the session, Ben Bella urged Castro to ease tension with the U.S. "And just how?" asked Castro. A little less rattling of Russian rockets would help, Ben Bella reportedly said. The final joint communiqué reflected no such exchange. Ben Bella approved a statement demanding an end to "imperialist oppression," and "foreign military bases in other countries, including the naval base at Guantánamo...
...China's Mao Tse-tung and his Central Committee held their Tenth Plenary Session in Peking last week. Without giving any supporting figures, a communiqué reported industrial and agricultural production as "this year again slightly better." Reasons for such a disappointingly small leap forward: natural disasters, "spontaneous tendency toward capitalism among part of the small producers," and "incompetence of some leading cadres." Two oldtime comrades of Chairman Mao were bounced from the Central Control Commission, no reason given...
Charm in the Evening. As the critical speeches sputtered on, the once unflappable Mac began a desperate buttonholing campaign to moderate the views of Commonwealth officials and avert a flatly hostile final communiqué. Recruiting Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to help with the lobbying, Macmillan exerted all his considerable charm at small meetings, between sessions, at the evening receptions, even at Queen Elizabeth's banquet for the Commonwealth leaders in Buckingham Palace...
...their formal communiqué last week, De Gaulle and Adenauer addressed a special appeal for the cooperation of young people, and Europe's youth show signs of breaking down barriers that their fathers once thought insuperable; thousands of new schools are being built, and foreign languages are being seriously studied by a growing percentage of students. Economic progress as such always leaves more to be done and is always subject to setbacks. Western Europe's spectacular boom reaches beyond economics by having given its people a new sense of self-confidence; instead of the old feeling of superiority...