Word: gaullists
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...considers himself his country's indispensable man, and he may be right. Like De Gaulle he chose the device of a popular referendum when he decided to adopt a constitution (TIME, Dec. 28); his smashing victory won Hassan the rare esteem of his idol in Paris. Employing some Gaullist firmness, Hassan has now fired the three members of his Cabinet who represented the powerful Istiqlal party, filled their jobs with officials stoutly loyal to the throne...
...Gaullist rhetoric, and it hinted of still another Gaullist touch. Rabat buzzed with rumors that Hassan was ready to organize his own political machine. According to one report, the name for the new group was already chosen: Union for New Royalty-U.N.R. They are the same initials as those of Charles de Gaulle's Union for the New Republic...
...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...
...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...