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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson also met twice with Italian Premier Aldo Moro, tried to reassure him that the U.S.-sponsored nuclear nonproliferation treaty would not handicap non-nuclear nations from fully developing the industrial applications of atomic energy. He talked for 45 minutes with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, encouraging him to go ahead with his decision to apply for Common Market membership...
Favorite Method. Charles de Gaulle wants none of that. He fears that urgent economic legislation about to be submitted to lawmakers could take months to squeeze through an unruly National Assembly, giving the opposition a continuous field day. Last week Premier Georges Pompidou told a hand-picked group of Deputies that the Assembly will be asked to approve government-by-decree for the next six months. Seeking extraordinary powers to rule temporarily by decree has long been a favorite method of French governments for stuffing unpopular measures down parliamentary throats, and De Gaulle himself has used it no less than...
They were led by Artillery Colonel George Papadopoulos, 48, who took over the most important Cabinet post, Minister to the Premier. The plot had been in the works for two years and involved 300 of the Greek army's 8,000-man officer corps. The date for the take-over was decided, said Colonel Papadopoulos, by intelligence reports that the Communists intended to launch a coup of their own last weekend. Not many Greeks believed that story...
...fiftyish, who will run-or try to run-Greece's economic affairs. The triumvirate nudged into the background Lieut. General Gregorios E. Spandidakis, 57, the former army chief of staff who was recruited after the coup had already started in order to ensure top-level army cooperation. Likewise, Premier Constantine Kollias emerged as nothing more than a civilian front man for the military rulers...
...Scandal." By last week the uproar had boiled into a potential threat to Premier Levi Eshkol's coalition government. As the result of an Orthodox campaign abroad, Eshkol has been inundated with protests from Jews in 21 countries. At home, police guarded the domiciles of some pathologists who had received threats, and scores of sick were refusing to enter hospitals for fear of dissection if they died...