Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yoke on the Arab people." The Soviet Union, "which harbors no such ambitions because it possesses all they have except bananas," said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves." At a Kremlin reception two days later, Premier Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to advance the U.A.R. 400 million rubles ($40 million at the tourist rate) to help Nasser build the Aswan High...
...Open Cathedral. The phrases he used when describing the rebels were the sort that no Premier before him had dared to utter. Most of them, he said, had fought "courageously," and he offered them "the peace of the brave" (see box). But he was only willing to discuss a cease-fire with the F.L.N., not to meet their demands for independence. Only by peaceful evolution could the "courageous personality of Algeria" come to exist...
...Gaulle above all men knew, he had taken only one more calculated step down a long road. In Cairo the F.L.N.'s government in exile, which had been proclaiming its eagerness to talk peace, now betrayed its fear that De Gaulle had the upper hand. Premier Ferhat Abbas bluntly rejected the idea of going to Paris, which would seem like surrender, insisted that negotiations take place in "some neutral country." Yet De Gaulle had placed the F.L.N. rebels in a delicate position. For the first time, Paris had a government not about to topple at any moment...
Excerpts from Premier de Gaulle's press conference invitation to the Algiers rebels...
...every turn, Spaak, 59-year-old former Socialist Premier of Belgium, met with suspicion, delay and doubletalk. "If the general public could sit in on these talks," declared one who had sat in, "they would be appalled at the haggling." "Barring war," declared Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, Greek-Turkish relations "could hardly be worse...