Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second point concerns the French Senate, whose members have often been De Gaulle's most persistent opponents. If the general has his way, the Senate would be troublesome no more; he would strip the French upper house of its already limited legislative and investigative functions and turn it into a consultative council that would have no power at all. Finally, De Gaulle wants to change the order of succession so that the president of the Senate no longer would become interim head of state in the event of the death or disability of the elected President. That function would...
...that can be put at NATO's disposal. That, in turn, may move Britain into a position to supply the supreme commander for NATO, a post that until now has always been filled by Americans-from Dwight David Eisenhower to the newly appointed commander of the allied forces, General Andrew J. Goodpaster...
...resentful. Almost half the 11,516 settlements in the country are hamlets of fewer than 200 people. From such towns and their debilitating poverty came Papadopoulos, Pattakos, Makarezos and the remainder of the nearly 300 nonEstablishment army officers who made the revolution. "We were all so poor," says Secretary-General of Interior Ioannis Ladas,one of the participants in the coup, "that we called Papadopoulos 'the rich man' because his father was a schoolteacher." The colonels understand the towns and despise the glib and loose culture of cities. They intend to save Greece with old-fashioned country morality...
...hands of aging mainlanders. Despite good intentions, the party congress did not appreciably change that pattern. The newly elected central committee includes twoscore fresh faces, but among its 150 full and alternate members, only 13 are Taiwanese. A new party advisory committee for the Gimo, who is also director-general of the Kuomintang, seats only one Taiwanese among its eleven members; the average age of that body is an august 75. The central committee list is headed by Defense Minister Chiang Chingkuo, 59, the Gimo's oldest son and his probable successor...
Startling News. But in the new Italian film Colpo di Stato (Coup d'Etat), the vote never comes in for the government. Playing to packed houses throughout the country, Colpo di Stato gives a fictional view of the Italian general election of 1972. When LILY brings the startling news that the Communists have won, no one is more astonished than the Communists themselves...