Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such an approach on de Gaulle's part would be logical. Nearing 74, he knows there is little time left for him to translate his "grand design" from plans into action. So far he has been unable to convince other European nations to accept his ideas. Despite the Franco-German treaty, Germany has stood with the United States on all crucial issues: unlike France it has supported the concept of a multi-lateral NATO force and signed the nuclear test ban treaty...
...Stefano was back stage at Philadelphia's Lyric Opera last week, glancing through the program. His eye caught just the kind of thing he was looking for - "Acclaimed The World's Greatest Tenor" - but to his in finite horror, there, smiling out above the blurb, was Archrival Franco Corelli. Di Stefano reacted with the cool dignity for which he is famous throughout op era. "I will not sing!" he shouted, grab bing his camel's-hair coat and heading for the door...
...program coming to an end in Germany, and was anxious to sell the Germans something else-its C-130 Hercules transport, one model of which the company had specially revamped to fit certain German requirements. All that Lockheed had to do was persuade Bonn to drop a planned Franco-German project to build the Transall turboprop transport. But the Germans could not drop Transall-for Transport Alliance-without affronting the French, who have already ordered 50 planes. Germany's renascent airframe industry, also, needs the work that the Transall would provide. And there was a further international consideration...
...united Europea he envisions is not a system of closely integrated national entities. Rather it is an alliance of foreign policies that would be canalized through the government of the strongest--quite naturally France. In the meantime, France will flex her muscles where she likes. Last year's Franco-German friendship treaty has provoked the charge within the Atlantic Alliance and Common Market that France is seeking a "special relationship" with West Germany. Despite breast-beating denials in Paris, the terms of the treaty quite clearly ally the two republics in a "special" way. More recently, France has made...
...Madrid's Revised University District stepped into a Cadillac for the brief ride from El Pardo Palace to a tiny yellow schoolhouse. There, under the gaze of his own official portrait, El Caudillo greeted members of the municipal election board, who graciously waived the usual identification procedure. Franco reached into an inside pocket of his double-breasted dark grey suit, removed an already filled-in ballot. He handed it to the board president, who solemnly announced, "His Excellency Francisco Franco Bahamonde, profession-Chief of State, married and with residence in the Palace of El Pardo, votes," and dropped...