Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they have begun to lend more than equivocal support to U Thant's campaign. Considered in any light, the U.N. mission was bound to raise welts on British backs, and so the Foreign Secretary also clung nervously to possible alternatives. In the shadow of Lord Home's strikingly Gaullist pronouncements on the proper function of the U.N. lay two profound fears: that the new federation would injure British financial interests in Katanga, and that the casques bleus would march firmly into any settlement of the touchy Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...
Despite the predictions of local experts that he was in trouble, the incumbent Gaullist Robert Hauret won easily on the first ballot with 369 votes, 163 more than he polled in 1958. Beside Poujade, the big loser was the Independent candidate, on the more modern right, whose total slipped to 45 votes from 137. At the other extreme, the Communists and Socialists held their 24 voters but added...
...from the rebellious lower house that toppled Premier Georges Pompidou's government two months ago. Many of the nation's best-known politicians and four of the old party labels had vanished. With the first absolute majority that any political group has ever commanded in the Assembly, Gaullist Deputies wasted no time in re-electing Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Gaullist mayor of Bordeaux, who had been Speaker of the old Assembly...
...Cabinet was little changed. Key posts remained in the hands of trusted veterans such as suave, multilingual Maurice Couve de Murville, Charles de Gaulle's faithful Foreign Minister, and brainy Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who led a wing of the rightist Independent Party into the Gaullist camp during the election. Though there were few new faces in the government, its most pressing legislative goals were underscored by the jobs that went to two of De Gaulle's top troubleshooters, Louis Joxe and Christian Fouchet...
...consultant on education in 1944, later became director of the Rothschild bank. De Gaulle, who does not relax easily, is soothed by Pompidou's roguish self-assurance, and even permitted him to help edit his Memoirs. A middle-road liberal, Pompidou is the likeliest choice to head the Gaullist party after De Gaulle leaves the scene...