Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday night, however, it was apparent that de Gaulle, and anyone who was reading the European or American press, had been sadly misinformed. The Association for the Fifth Republic -- the confederation of Gaullist parties that has had a firm grip on the Assembly for nearly ten years -- was in trouble. For a number of hours after the polls closed it seemed that the Association would not control even a bare majority. Only the following day when the Corsican vote was recounted, did the Gaullists gain their 244th seat, one more than the total held by all the opposition parties...
Endangered Majority. Publicly, the Gaullists profess to be unworried about the outcome. Privately, however, they concede that their majority is in danger. If the latest public opinion polls are any guide, France's next Assembly may be split fairly evenly between Gaullist and leftist Deputies, with the Center Catholics of Lecanuet holding the balance of power. Such an alignment would almost certainly wreck whatever chances Pompidou has of eventually taking over from De Gaulle. But it could also force De Gaulle to soften his anti-U.S. stand in the interest of a working agreement with the Center...
...control and capital-gains taxes were good, its members found much more to disagree on, such as whether NATO was good or bad. So divided were the parties, in fact, that the only specific action to which they would commit themselves was to work together to try to defeat Gaullist candidates in the parliamentary elections next March. Even that collaboration will be limited. It applies only to runoff elections in which two leftist candidates face one Gaullist. In such cases, one of the leftists will be expected to withdraw and throw his votes to the other...
...Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, will make his comeback as Minister of Finance in the new government. The other is Gerhard Schroder, 56, who moved from his post as Foreign Minister under Erhard to take on the controversial and besieged position of Defense Minister. Strauss is a Catholic and a Gaullist who blames Schröder for Germany's strained relations with France; Schroder is a Protestant and Atlanticist who fears that the burly Bavarian may endanger West Germany's strong ties with...
...action scenes the Gaullist heroes-ludicrously misdirected by Rene Clement, who made his reputation with a film about children (Forbidden Games)-look so much like a platoon of preschool toddlers playing bang-I-gotcha! that instead of glory they get mostly guffaws. After an hour or so of this, most previewers were badly rattled. Some tried plugging their ears, but then the action looked completely incomprehensible. Some tried closing their eyes, but then they could still hear the lines-e.g., "Fifty kilometers to Paris? Hm. That's about 30 miles." Finally, a few coony old film critics discovered...