Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political upheaval in the steaming, rain-forested republic. No sooner had an army coup toppled Gabon's President Léon Mba than De Gaulle came to the rescue. With a lightning strike of planes and paratroopers, he restored Mba to power and demonstrated that the grand Gaullist manner extends to darkest Africa as well as to Europe and America...
...France last week, as in the U.S., the presidential campaign was hotting up. The Socialist candidate, Marseille's handsome, able Mayor Gaston Defferre, 53, got solid party backing at a congress held in Clichy, north of Paris. Defferre went swiftly on the attack, accusing the Gaullist government of failures in education, housing and road building, and claiming that these objectives could best be met with "Horizon '80," his 15-year plan for strengthening France from...
Private Domains. In foreign affairs, Defferre argued for national independence based "on the economic rather than the military level," and hinted that, under favorable conditions, he would scrap De Gaulle's nuclear force de frappe. But above all, Defferre demanded changes in the Gaullist constitution, especially asking that 1) the President's term be shortened from seven to five years so that he can be elected at the same time as the National Assembly, 2) the President's role should be more that of an arbitrator than an arbitrary ruler with sole authority over such "private domains...
...lone-wolf Couve called at the suite of lone-wolf Charles de Gaulle in the small, elegant Hotel Laperousse near the Etoile. He laconically recalls: "We discussed foreign policy a little to see where we stood." Then De Gaulle shook hands with his new Foreign Minister. Of that first Gaullist Cabinet, Couve de Murville is the only man to have remained in the same spot, very likely because he firmly believes France should be run by brilliant technicians administering the policy of a great President and not by a host of wrangling, multiparty politicians...
...national ambitions invariably prevail over ideologies. "No ordeal changes the nature of man," De Gaulle puts it, "and no crisis changes the nature of states." He argues that the interests of the Czechs, Poles, Bulgarians, and even the Russians, are essentially European and therefore common with France. A top Gaullist insists, "When the time for a real détente comes, it is not America that can speak to Eastern Europe. Western Europe can. Look at the Poles! They're still frightened to death of the Germans. But which of the major powers in Europe have recognized the Oder...