Word: linings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initial preparatory meeting, held in Budapest in February 1968, ended on an ominous note as the Rumanians, on orders from Ceausescu, walked out because they were criticized for not following the Soviet line of condemning Israel. An infinitely greater disruption came a few months later, when the forces of five Warsaw Pact nations, led by the Soviet Union, crashed into Czechoslovakia. Russia only outraged the majority of foreign Communists by stamping out a liberal experiment with which they sympathized and one that could have helped them win votes in the free world. At the same time, Russia once again ground...
...doctrine from its first victims. Shortly before leaving for Moscow, Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who in April replaced Alexander Dubcek, declared that "anti-Communist and anti-Soviet insti gations" had justified the intervention of Czechoslovakia's Warsaw Pact neigh bors. In Moscow, Husak, accompanied by new hard-line officials who only the week before had accomplished a purge of most of the prominent liberals on the Czechoslovak Central Committee, pleaded with the Italians and other foreign Communists not to discuss the Czechoslovakia issue in the conference...
...cities across France, plainly hoping for a wide national mandate in the runoff election June 15. As if to help him gain it, the French Communist Party took the unprecedented step of ordering its followers to abstain from the voting altogether. If every Communist voter hewed to the party line, Pompidou was already assured of a majority. No Frenchman expected it to end quite that neatly, but as the campaign entered its final week, Georges Pompidou seemed almost certain to become the next President of France...
...most responsible for rousing France to vote no on De Gaulle's referendum seemed unwilling to indict the Gaullist era with facts and figures. The man who gave the presidency its first informality in eleven years also showed up on television peering at notes and occasionally flubbing a line. "Poher is a good man," remarked Deauville Mayor Michel d'Ornano, "but he still thinks one can solve the problems of the world over a cup of coffee...
...ours. There are many Arab millionaires made rich by oil, or by representing Western companies. It is not right that they should be rich while we are both poor and homeless. They are indirectly the agents of the U.S., which aids Israel. I know blowing up the tap-line hurts Saudi Arabia. But, Saudi Arabia is a reactionary regime, and it sells its oil to those who support Israel. It is too bad for Saudi Arabia that she may suffer. Our main aim remains American interests...