Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Consolation. De Gaulle's blackball of the British came while he was visiting the West German capital of Bonn for the semiannual talks on the Franco-West German pact signed in 1963. He was greeted by Chancellor Kurt Kiesineer, who was somewhat exasperated because his French ally had gone off on his own during the Middle East crisis and ignored him while consulting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. De Gaulle explained that his policy was to assure that at least one Western nation (his own) would remain on friendly terms with the Arabs. He also told Kiesinger about his feeling...
...Gunpoint. Tshombe's kidnaping was a bizarre episode. He had flown from Madrid, where he lives in exile, to Palma on the island of Majorca for a few days' rest, accompanied by two security agents assigned by the Franco government to protect him. Next day a sleek executive Hawker Siddeley 125 touched down in Palma on a flight from Geneva. On board were four passengers, including two whom Tshombe already knew. One was a Frenchman named Francis Bodenan, whom he had become acquainted with a few weeks earlier, the other a Belgian named Marcel Hambursin. The remaining passengers...
...Purely Financial." Far more of a shock was Charles de Gaulle's decision to pull out of a Franco-British project to build an advanced variable-geometry fighter as a European counterpart to the U.S.'s swing-wing F-lll. As the British government publicly interpreted it, the move was made on "purely financial grounds," but the whole truth is that the French have already gone ahead and developed their own variable-geometry fighter, the Dassault Mirage 3G, which is due to make its maiden flight this month. Presumably undisturbed is the ambitious joint project to build...
Still, speed is one thing at Le Mans - and survival is another. The Ford Mark IVs were obviously faster, but could they outlast the Ferraris? Gambling that they could not, Ferrari Team Manager Franco Lini ordered his drivers to hold back, bide their time, and wait for misfortune to hit the Mark IVs. The gamble almost paid off. One Mark IV went off the course, got stuck in sand and never got out; another lost its rear hood, had to pit for repairs and dropped far behind. Then there was Mario Andretti. Running second in the No. 3 Mark...
Died. Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 79, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, since 1945 and one of the most conservative of Roman Catholic prelates, a handsome, ascetic man who in 1959 spoke glowingly of Franco's Spain while threatening to excommunicate anyone who voted for Communist-backed candidates in Sicily's local elections, then was one of the leading conservative spokesmen within the Vatican Council, opposing the schema of religious liberty, liturgical reform, modern Biblical criticism, the declaration clearing the Jews of guilt for the Crucifixion; of a heart attack; in Palermo...