Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organic Cooperation. In private dam-building talks with Adenauer, De Gaulle keyed his pitch directly to West Germany's bubbling new nationalism. "For years our foreign policy was based on considering ourselves the biggest small nation," glowed one German diplomat. "But De Gaulle sees us in a different light-as a great nation...
...with its other Western partners, Adenauer would find a huge majority against him in the Bundestag, including not only the Socialist opposition and the Free Democrats, who shore up his coalition government, but also nearly two-thirds of his own Christian Democratic Union. Adenauer's problem, says one diplomat, is thus to let the Franco-German love match ripen naturally, "so that it becomes neither an ersatz for the Common Market, nor a rival for it, nor directed against any partner, including...
...five days between the death of his father, Mohammed V, and his own religious coronation in March 1961. Since it is also customary for royal wives to remain in the background, the marriage was never announced or acknowledged. "If the King has a child," purred a Moroccan diplomat last week, "that is his personal affair." In Rome, where he posed proudly with the baby and even bustled off to town hall to register her birth himself, Hassan said that the new princess would be called Mariam (Arabic for Mary), "a name that is sacred in the Koran...
Undismayed by the United Arab Republic's bitter try at togetherness, Saudi Arabia and Jordan also have the urge to merge. Their alliance, which a Jordanian diplomat described as a "semi-union," was formed last week after three days of talks between crusty old King Saud, 61, and Jordan's gritty young King Hussein, 26, whose Hashemite grandfather King Abdullah was chased out of the Arabian peninsula in 1919 by Saud's father...
...story line at the center of the musical is a situation comedy roughly like TV's Stone Age comedy, The Flints tones. Father has troubles with his job and endless petty nuisances around the House. Daughter (Anita Gillette) falls in love with an unacceptable fellow-a Red diplomat, in fact-but eventually settles for a goodolamurrican Secret Service man. Now and then the script calls for a lapse of taste, as when Nanette burns through The First Lady, the sexiest song in the show, or when she comes on in a grass skirt and begins to bump and grind...