Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRANCE last week seemed all too normal. In keeping with his holiday habits, President Charles de Gaulle was at his country home in the quiet village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises in eastern France. His Premier, Maurice Couve de Murville, was on the Riviera, trying to extract some warmth from the pale Mediterranean sun. Brigitte Bardot was in the Alps, along with thousands of other French women and men who had trooped to the ski slopes in record numbers. Le tout Paris was caught up in a frenzied swirl of parties and balls that surprised even veteran socialites. "I have...
...austerity program. Unrest continues to ripple across France's universities and factories, the centers of last spring's upheavals. All over the country, Frenchmen are worried that fresh economic crises or new disorders may break out. Some questioned the ability of De Gaulle and Premier Couve de Murville to cope with a new onset of troubles. The uneasiness extends into the top echelons of De Gaulle's party. Says Gaullist Secretary-General Robert Poujade: "France is sailing between anarchy and fascism...
...series of deft maneuvers, he transferred several leading hardliners. Most notable: ex-Colonellonnis Ladas, who lost his post as chief of the country's internal security system. Isolated from their former colleagues in the army, the hard-liners had no alternative but to bow to the Premier's orders. Consolidating his control over the Greek military, Papadopoulos appointed Lieut. General Odysseus Anghelis, a reliable career officer, to the newly created post of Chief of the Armed Forces...
...buttress that contention, the chief government spokesman emphasized at a press conference that all government power is now being exercised solely through the Cabinetland Premier, as prescribed in the new constitution that was overwhelmingly ratified last September. Papadopoulos appointed a commission of jurists and civil servants to draw up the 25 or so laws that are needed to implement the precepts of the constitution. In a nationwide radio address, Papadopoulos promised to ease the country's rigid revolutionary rule and to introduce extensive social re forms. The thrust of his actions in dicated that the initial military phase...
...regime, but I will do so in a legitimate way, not in a subversive manner." Papadopoulos has seemed content to allow them to make preliminary attempts at organizing parties. "I would be happy," he said, "if someone got started." But Greece's remaining political leaders, including former Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, have refused to cooperate in any way with Papadopoulos. The Premier hopes to convince them that their boycott is only delaying Greece's return to normal parliamentary rule...