Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was six too many. "After two years and in the middle of an election campaign," stormed M.D.B. President Franco Montoro, "this measure shrieks to the heavens." Even Adauto Cardoso, president of the Chamber of Deputies and a key ARENA leader, registered his hot protest. "Only after consulting the directors of the House and the vote of the majority of the Deputies," Cardoso announced, "will I feel authorized to declare the extinction of the mandates." Congressional leaders promptly summoned Deputies back to Brasilia for a vote. Angrily, Castello Branco in effect ordered ARENA members to stay just where they were...
...Moroccans who had met Ben Barka at the villa. King Hassan flatly refused to hand them over for trial. In fact, he had been working feverishly behind the scenes to block the proceedings. Emissaries had approached Charles de Gaulle himself, pleading that the affair would put a blight on Franco-Moroccan relations. Hassan argued in vain, for De Gaulle declined to intervene...
...Treatment. Nor was there any assurance that Dlimi himself would ever face a French judge. No sooner had he surrendered than a bevy of Hassan's hand-picked lawyers arrived in Paris to file a motion with France's Supreme Court invoking the Franco-Moroccan judicial convention of 1956. Under that agreement, French and Moroccan nationals must be tried in their national courts for offenses committed in the other country. It would also be months before the French court could rule on that motion. In the meantime, Dlimi was comfortably ensconced in a VIP cell at Paris...
...grand international enterprises undertaken by Western Europe after World War II, formed the nucleus of the Common Market, and ever since has been considered a model for economic development. The Community promoted steel and coal production, cut tariffs, achieved fair pricing, and took much of the malice out of Franco-German industrial rivalry. Now, however, just when it should be congratulating itself on its long-term success, the Community seems to be falling into disarray...
...Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...