Word: miers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premier. According to high government officials, there is unanimous agreement, at least within the Cabinet, that Franco's powers should be divided so that his death will not paralyze the regime. But there is no agreement yet, nor any indication from Franco, on when or how the pre mier should be chosen. The liberals in Franco's Cabinet favor direct popular election, would like to see the premier removed entirely from Franco's control, empowered to choose his own Cabinet and held responsible only to an enlarged and more representative Cortes. The old guard, led by Alonso...
...Geneva at midnight (and so rapidly that the F.L.N. leaders left their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...
...scandal broke last fall when Pre mier Josef Cyrankiewicz, Politburo Member Edward Ochab and other top functionaries suddenly got a rash of Rabelaisian letters that mingled demands for greater intellectual freedom with obscene personal denunciations. Most of the letters, many of which were mimeographed, were mailed from the same Warsaw letter box, and police soon identified the sender: Novelist Jerzy Kornacki, 53, a protégé of the late Polish President, Boleslaw Bierut, and author of several proletarian novels (the best known: Hauling the Brick Carts). He is also an active member of Warsaw's Crooked Circle Club...
...then we visit John Van Mier's cabin, where we find that he too has had an unfortunate experience in love but that he, poor devil, has his mother along with him. Mrs. Craig is a little older than John Van Mier, but it would seem that the propellors are finally beginning to churn, all be it slowly and methodically...
Dark Hint. By midweek it seemed if every Cabinet minister was crying help from somewhere. The Deputy Pre mier asked tiny Ghana to send its army. Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko for U.S. troops, but his appeal was promptly disavowed by Lumumba, who had been off on one of his flights. Lu mumba instead asked the U.N. for help, and hinted darkly that unless he got it, the Congo would appeal to Communist China. No one in the Congolese government asked Belgium for anything, but Brussels moved swiftly in response to the cries of its beleaguered citizens. Para troops and commando...