Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he was the obscure, if fractious, leader-in-exile of Nazi-occupied France. Since then he has been the subject of nine other TIME cover stories and appeared last when he said non to devaluation of the franc. His successor could hardly match the general's flair for making news-or, for that matter, his disdain for the press. Reported Paris Bureau Chief Rademaekers: "One covered De Gaulle from a distance-like a moon shot. Journalists invited to visit the Elysee Palace always entered by the servants' entrance. We still enter by the same door...
...survive in the U.S. It is time for faculties, boards of trustees and school administrators to have the backbone to stand up against this kind of situation." In May 1 Law Day speeches, other Administration officials echoed Nixon, calling student rebels "ideological criminals" and "new barbarians." Said Attorney General John Mitchell: "The time has come for an end to patience. I call for an end to minority tyranny on the nation's campuses and for the immediate re-establishment of civil peace and the protection of individual rights...
...policy of détente with the U.S.S.R. suffered a violent setback when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia, and French critics of NATO suddenly fell silent. Rapprochement was further advanced by Richard Nixon's European trip in February, which he used to affirm both his personal admiration for the general and the continuing U.S. friendship for France...
President Nixon responded to the news of De Gaulle's defeat by writing a letter of regret and repeating his invitation to the general to visit the U.S., now as a private citizen. Said Nixon: "I have greatly valued the frank and comprehensive exchanges of views it has been my privilege to have with you." U.S. foreign policy experts responded cautiously to De Gaulle's debacle. "We've got a whole new ball game," said one, but nobody is yet certain of the game's exact rules. One thing at least is clear: De Gaulle...
...bring French forces back into NATO or soon abandon the force de frappe. De Gaulle emphasized that French defenses had been reoriented to repel an attack from any direction: from the U.S.S.R., from a European neighbor -even from the U.S. Before last week's voting, however, Air Force General Michel Fourquet, the French armed forces Chief of Staff, suggested that De Gaulle's "all-azimuth" defense policy be abandoned in favor of closer military cooperation with NATO...