Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans who approve of Johnson's conduct in office is down to 39%, the lowest figure any President has scored in the Gallup sampling since Harry Truman's 31% in 1952. For Johnson, the popularity tumble was rapid. After his June meeting at Glassboro with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, he enjoyed a 52% approval rating according to Gallup, 58% according to Harris...
...might be time to invoke the constitutional provision that calls for the replacement of the French President when he becomes "disabled." The magazine also ran a full-page cartoon that pictured De Gaulle gagged and sputtering, his arms pinned back by two gorillas, who are getting instructions from Premier Georges Pompidou: "You can let him shake hands. But above all, keep him from talking, no matter what...
...late 1966, Premier Ky promised to reopen the waterway no later than May 31. In a determined effort to make good, he sent an army battalion and six 40-man rural-development teams into hamlets along the canal to combat Viet Cong influence. The V.C. countered by murdering local officials, and Ky failed to make his May deadline: parts of the canal are still intermittently under V.C. control...
...best market for mercenary employment remains the Congo, where President Joseph Mobutu is now trying to quell a mutiny led by some 150 whites, who were hired a few years ago by ex-Premier Moise Tshombe but have more recently been on Mobutu's payroll. That mercenary force had by last week battled its way out of a forest encampment near Obokote in Kivu Province and was pushing toward Bukavu near the Rwanda border, where a small government garrison was waiting...
Forgotten in Brazilian exile for the past four years, after accusing Charles de Gaulle of "treason" in granting Algerian independence, France's Georges Bidault, 67-twice a postwar Premier, nine times Foreign Minister-took several large steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty...