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HIS lease on the Elysée Palace runs only 35 days, and his mandate is hardly precise. He is empowered to organize new elections for the presidency of France, and he must get along with the government of Premier Maurice Couve de Murville until De Gaulle's elected...
The second point concerns the French Senate, whose members have often been De Gaulle's most persistent opponents. If the general has his way, the Senate would be troublesome no more; he would strip the French upper house of its already limited legislative and investigative functions and turn it...
Nixon's conversations with De Gaulle, at the Elysée Palace and at Louis XIV's Grand Trianon in Versailles, went as smoothly as either nation could expect. One indication that the venerable general was in a benign mood came during the glittering dinner party at the...
That monumental spin through space will be hard to match, but even so, Apollo 8 Command Pilot Frank Borman has had some rarefied moments on earth since reentry. Last week, for instance, a European tour took him from Buckingham Palace to the Elysée Palace to a dinner with...
Foreign Minister Michel Debré was droning on during the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Elysée Palace when Charles de Gaulle, tossing his head impatiently, cut him off. The general had something he wanted to get on the record. "In the accomplishment of the national task that has...