Word: controled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Walter Cronkite's question of the day is, "Can We Control the Weather...
...such ministries as Public Works and Health pressed for change and refurbishing, but the "other" government, typified by the Finance Ministry, opposed radical reform, and it was De Gaulle's personally run Finance Ministry?where tax forms are still laboriously filled out and stamped by hand?that kept control of France. "It has become a system governed by rules rather than objectives," says University of Nanterre Sociologist Alain Touraine...
Burning actuality took up most of his time. Beginning with the 1967 election preliminaries, Pompidou assumed close management of the Gaullist party, personally selecting many of its candidates and maintaining ties with the winners in Parliament. His control became dominant in the crisis-ridden atmosphere of last spring, when he even advised De Gaulle not to follow through on his promise of a personal referendum. Instead, Pompidou cannily proposed the alternative of parliamentary elections, on which only Pompidou's?not the general's?prestige would be staked. "If you lose the referendum, Mon Général, the regime is lost...
...fedayeen. Trying to tip the scales to the militants, Syria last week sent a group of guerrillas to attack a Lebanese military post. They were driven off when reinforcements arrived. No matter what the politicians agree on, the 15,000-man Lebanese army will find it difficult to control the 1,000 guerrillas camped on the lower slopes of Mount Hermon. The guerrillas are determined, in the words of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to "operate from every Arab position around the occupied homeland" -by which they mean Israel...
...well-deserved reputation as an expert in political survival. Another surprise was the small size of the Standing Committee itself. In 1966, as the Cultural Revolution began, its membership doubled to 14 men. Now it is down to five,* indicating that Mao is intent on holding tightly to control...