Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flowery Portuguese, Galvão radioed his "first official communiqué to all democratic newspapers of the free world." Speaking in the name of "General Humberto Delgado, legally elected President of the Portuguese Republic, who has been fraudulently deprived of his rights by the Salazar administration," Galvão saluted the "oppressed peoples" of Portugal and Spain, swore he had received aid from no foreign government, and added that the capture of the Santa Maria marked the liberation of the first piece of Portuguese "territory...
...Paulo last week, Delgado celebrated the coup with convivial glasses of red Portuguese wine, raisins and crackers. Chatting happily with newsmen, he answered overseas phone calls and fired off stirring communiqués informing the U.S. and Britain that the capture of the Santa Maria "does not represent mutiny or piracy but only the seizure of Portuguese transport by Portuguese to fulfill Portuguese political objectives." The act, he cried, "will contribute greatly to the liberation of Portugal" and prepare the way for setting up a "provisional government...
...President's orders, cooperated fully with Kennedy and his appointees. Eisenhower and Kennedy met face to face for three hours in early December. Last week, the day before the inauguration, they conferred again, then met with Cabinet officers of the old and new Administrations in what a joint communiqué called a "full discussion of the world situation...
...reply was oblique and guarded. Information Minister Louis Terrenoire wordily took note of "the expression of an apparently more favorable state of mind toward eventual peaceful contacts" between "the rebellion's exterior organization" and France. F.L.N. Information Minister M'hammed Yazid retorted hopefully that the communiqué "indicates an apparent willingness to accept negotiations. It is now up to the French government to put its statement into effect." The F.L.N. leadership offered another concession: instead of demanding the evacuation of the French army before Algeria held a plebiscite on its future, they asked only the removal of such...
Last week there was open talk of abolishing the present system of government in favor of a loose federation between two self-governing states, one Flemish, the other Walloon. In Brussels, Socialist Deputies from Wallonia held a meeting without the Flemish Socialist members, issued a communiqué without precedent in Belgian political history. The communiqué noted that "government policies accentuate and accelerate the deterioration of the economic situation of Wallonia," and declared that "if these policies are not changed, the Walloon people will have no alternative but the revision of the unitary institutions of the country in order...