Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets its popular name from its address: 37 Quai d'Orsay. On a grey, windy afternoon last week, as barges moved slowly upriver and traffic jams clogged the bridges and boulevards of Paris, Couve sat at his leather-topped, bronze-filigree desk. There had been 90 minutes of Gaullist oratory the day before, and now Couve was leafing through two pink paper folders, fat with world reaction and the interminable word traffic of modern diplomacy. A red slash across the corner of a paper meant an outgoing cable, a green slash an incoming one. From Washington, the French embassy...
...Washington, before a joint session of Congress, Italy's President Antonio Segni ringingly rejected Gaullist notions of a European third force, argued that the Atlantic Alliance "is in fact the reality that holds us together and favors European unification...
...Onetime Gaullist. Born at Marsi-llargues, 80 miles west of Marseille, Defferre took his law degree at Aix-en-Provence, joined the Resistance during the war, served for a time as a Gaullist in North Africa. After the Liberation, Defferre was elected mayor of Marseille, has served continuously in Parliament since 1946, and was a decolonizer long before De Gaulle: the 1956 loi-cadre, giving autonomy to France's African empire, was Defferre's creation...
...presidency, Defferre's chances of winning do not seem bright. As a Protestant, he is obviously considered suspect by many of the Catholic center. But he can be depended upon to make lively what might have been a dull campaign and to ask questions that trouble even Gaullist Frenchmen, questions about European policy, the independent nuclear deterrent, and, especially, about inflation. "The general bears the entire responsibility for the deterioration of our financial position," Defferre charges. "You can't deny De Gaulle's immense qualities, but he is truly isolating us. He has the taste for drama...
...Students. The Gaullist government is frantically building 42,000 more university places. That is less than half the need, and not a single new place is being added at the University of Paris, which has 100,000 students in its five colleges in the Latin Quarter. Hardest-hit is the age-blackened Sorbonne,* the Paris college of letters, which was built for 10,000 students and now has 32,000. The Sorbonne has only 100 professors to do all the lecturing. It has only half a dozen seminar rooms; the 600 sociology students hold their seminars in a room with...