Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since World War II, Greece has had 40 governments - an average of two a year. Government No. 40, under moderate Stephanos Stephanopoulos, was as shaky as the shakiest. Its parliamentary majority never topped six votes. Even though he had lasted an incredible 15 months, Premier Stephanopoulos was anything but confident. "I feel like a Caryl Chess man," he told a visitor two weeks ago. "I know I am condemned. What I do not know is when they are going to give me the electric chair." As it turned out, they gave it to him last week...
...Stephanopoulos was instantly finished. Said he when told the news: "But why now? Even in Viet Nam they've declared a truce for Christmas." In Athens' complex politics, the reason for the timing was far from clear. But some saw the fine hand of wily old ex-Premier George Papandreou, who for months has been demanding that the government resign and call new elections. It was Papandreou whom Stephanopoulos ultimately succeeded in 1965, after discovery of an abortive plot to infiltrate the military with leftists. Kanellopoulos supposedly agreed to press for an amnesty for the accused plotters (among...
...full power, will not create such chaos that no choice is possible. It specifies that Franco must remain as chief of state for as long as he lives, but gives him "permission" to step aside as chief of government and turn over operating control of the regime to a premier of his own choosing-if he so desires...
...meant to be De Gaulle? "I cannot stop people from seeing political analogies where I merely intended to be funny," says Goscinny. Yet a recent cartoon in the French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné pictured Astérix with De Gaulle's nose; he and Premier Georges "Pompidouix" are shouting "Amérix go home!"-not to Romans and their "S.P.Q.R." but to foreign troops with "U.S." on their helmets. Le Monde Columnist Robert Escarpit explains the Astérix cult this way: "These invincible Gauls, barricaded in their little corner of the universe, like us French...
Died. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, 65, Polish patriot, wartime head of the Polish exile government who returned home in 1945, joined a coalition regime (as Vice Premier) with the Communists in hopes of moderating Red influence, saw rigged elections wipe out his Peasant Party before threats to his life forced him into exile once more in 1947, this time in the U.S., where he spent his years lecturing and writing; of a stroke; in Chevy Chase...