Word: premiered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bedouins that he hoped "the laggards still concerned with civil war may finally realize that the page of combat has been turned. Now it is the page of progress, civilization and the brotherhood of man." At week's end Premier de Gaulle flew back to France, where his election as President of the Fifth Republic on Dec. 21 became only a formality when his respected friend, 76-year-old President Rene Coty, announced that he would...
Beware the New Colonialism. Even among the leaders of France's former territories, there are vast differences about where they should be heading. The eccentric Abbé Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Republic of Congo is not a man to want to join a federation that may cut down his own power within his present preserve. The abbe's more statesmanlike neighbor to the north, Strongman Barthelemy Boganda, of the former French territory of Ubangi-Shari -now grandly called the Central African Republic* fears that in the fragmentation of French Equatorial African states, the young republics might...
...Brazzaville's round, smiling Mayor Fulbert Youlou, 41-had just returned from the French Middle Congo's capital city of Pointe-Noire. There the Assembly had turned the territory into an autonomous republic within the French community and named abbé Youlou its new Premier...
...microphone. Police cleared out the invaders with tear gas, and the Assembly dutifully settled down to vote for autonomy. Then the abbé introduced a resolution postponing elections until 1962. Opangault's socialists stomped out in protest, and after they were gone the abbé was elected Premier...
Fortnight ago, in a crisis brought on by the leftists, conservative Premier Ahmed Balafrej and his government resigned. Harassed King Mohammed promptly turned to the one man who seemed to have the authority to halt the bickering inside the Istiqlal; he asked Allal el Fassi, 48, the party's political leader, to become Premier. El Fassi is both a religious mystic and a rabble-rousing extreme nationalist who has led the agitation for a "Greater Morocco," to include large hunks of the French Sahara. He proposed too many leftist Cabinet ministers to suit the King. Last week the King...