Word: gaullismes
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...Pompidou-an extraordinary result in light of the fact that Poher has no party backing his candidacy and has only become widely known in recent weeks. Poher also repeated his attack on the government-run TV network, which has long and one-sidedly sung the praises of Gaullism. Said Poher: "This daily and insidious propaganda does not bring out the objective truth and reassure citizens." He promised, if elected, to see to it that the network was more evenhanded. The criticism nettled the Gaullist Cabinet of Premier Maurice Couve de Murville. The Gaullists let it be known that "perhaps...
...Frenchmen should "grant General de Gaulle the 'blank cheque' that he is demanding." Le Monde seemed to think that they should not. The next week, the paper accepted the results as more or less foreordained, dissected the non vote and analyzed M. Pompidou's bid for "Gaullism without De Gaulle...
...seemed determined to fulfill all of De Gaulle's most scornful descriptions of them and to prove the old maxim that four Frenchmen locked in a room together are likely to emerge with five political parties. In the course of their first-week search to mount a challenge to Gaullism, they only managed to stumble over one another in a parody of the Alphonse-Gaston...
...used for a cause in which few of them believed. For a short time the state had virtually withered away." To this vision of millennia achieved, the brothers Cohn-Bendit add the somewhat wistful assertion that, if Parisians had awakened to find some major ministries occupied by the demonstrators, Gaullism "would have caved in at once...
...France, a near-revolution by students and workers came close to toppling Charles de Gaulle in May; its economic aftermath in November almost certainly discredited forever Gaullism's vaunted role as the power broker of Europe. In Egypt, students rampaged through the streets, burning buses and shouting against the "prefabricated slogans" of Gamal Abdel Nasser's regime...