Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results in the overseas territories were as astonishing. Only French Guinea, in the control of tough anti-Gaullist Premier Sekou Toure, voted no. Senegal, Niger, even supposedly sullen Madagascar came through with thumping oui majorities...
...Premier Charles de Gaulle asked France for a vote of confidence and this week got a thunderous shout of approval. An overwhelming 80% of French voters plumped for his version of the Fifth Republic. In De Gaulle's home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, where the Premier was an early-morning voter at the town hall, 'the count on his referendum was oui, 195; non, 1. De Gaulle telephoned friends in Paris to assure them he was not the dissident voter...
...F.L.N. countered with a warning that if Moslems voted they were "committing suicide." From Cairo, headquarters of the new Algerian "government in exile," Premier Ferhat Abbas denounced the referendum as an "intolerable pressure" on the F.L.N.'s fight for independence. "Algeria is not France. The Algerian people are not French," he cried. A French troop convoy was ambushed 90 miles east of Oran and 19 soldiers killed; a portable polling booth was blown up near the Tunisian border; in Tlemcen, a crowd watching an election movie was sprayed with F.L.N. machine-gun fire...
Troops in full battle dress moved into Rangoon police and government buildings one night last week. They mounted 2-in. guns around the capital's airfield, stopped all cars in the city and on major roads and searched them for hidden firearms. Then Premier U Nu, the dexterous little Buddhist who has presided over Burma's turbulent fortunes for almost all of its ten years of independence, went on the air and announced that he was resigning and had invited General Ne Win, chief of the armed forces, to head a nonparty government which would dissolve Parliament...
With General Ne Win (whose name means "General Bright Sun") as a caretaker Premier, the army forces would have a free hand to root out the Communist rebels from the jungle and roll back Communist undercover infiltration into political life in time to permit orderly settlement of Burma's parliamentary deadlock at the polls next spring. Some, noting that the switch deprived Nu of control over electoral machinery, held that Nu is now on his way out as a political leader. "If the initiative for turning over the government really did come from Nu, he must be rated...