Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inching behind a snowplow in his beige Peugeot, French Premier Georges Pompidou trekked manfully through the hills of his native Auvergne, waving at the few hardy souls on the roads. Warmed by a coal heater, Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet stood on a sawdust floor in Murat and told 300 townsmen that the government had forgotten them. Socialist Leader François Mitterrand was in Ussel, holding forth on the evils of "caste and privilege" in a hall that stank of sweat and Gauloise Bleue cigarettes. And at Aubervilliers, Communist Waldeck Rochet denounced "social demagoguery" in a suitably dingy gymnasium...
...earlier orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian dignitaries and the annual rubber-stamp session of the Chinese Parliament. As 10,000 Red Guards stared up at a triple-tiered ceiling studded with stars, Premier Chou En-lai appeared onstage. What ensued last week was the stiffest rebuke that the Guards have received to date-and an indication that China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is in danger of choking on its own absurdities...
...Kosygin could not deliver. Just hours before the Soviet Premier's departure, Wilson and Brown sped up to his suite at Claridge's for an unscheduled 1 a.m. conference. It was then that Kosygin relayed Hanoi's reply to his plea for a gesture toward deescalation. The answer was, of course, "No." That clinched it for Washington. Once Kosygin was en route home, Lyndon Johnson gave his commanders the signal to resume the bombing...
...admitting that even Peking itself is not entirely subjugated (fully ten of the city's districts are unsafe for Maoism). The rest of the capital, indeed much of the country, remains in chaos. Although many Red Guards last week were leaving for home and school as ordered by Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, Feb. 17), there were many more who found their first taste of power too heady to listen to Chou's orders. Since the Cultural Revolution began, complained the New China News Agency, "wrong tendencies have emerged in the revolutionary ranks"-specifically because, once they have...
...Harold Wilson's most frustrating week since last July's sterling crisis - and it was, in fact, a pretty dismal week for British diplomacy in general. Having failed in his peacemaking attempt with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Wilson flew off to Bonn with Foreign Secretary George Brown on what appeared to be a much simpler task: to try to persuade the West Germans to help Britain gain entry to the European Common Market. Since the West Germans already are on record as favoring British entry, Wilson hoped that he could induce Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and his colleagues...