Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friendship Pact. After a press conference later that morning, Ulbricht took off for home. Once he was aloft, the crowd of Czechoslovaks that had dutifully gathered at the airport to wave the East German boss on his way erupted into a demonstration of joy-and relief. They mobbed Dubcek, Premier Oldrich Cernik and Presidium Member Josef Smrkovsky. The Czechoslovak leaders responded by signing autographs, slapping backs and bussing the pretty girls. At one point, Dubcek grabbed Smrkovsky and turned his face to the crowd so that the people could see the lipstick smears...
...year-old official to earn such praise from a rebel leader is a rarity. But Faure has long drawn admiration for a kind of wily brilliance that proves effective in explosive situations. A feisty, self-confident law professor, he served as a cabinet minister 18 times and Premier of France twice in the revolving-door days of the Fourth Republic, and under Charles de Gaulle. Faure was De Gaulle's chief troubleshooter in handling the colonial clashes with Morocco and Tunisia. He helped forge new French ties with Red China, fought stubbornly to protect the interests of French farmers...
...overcome the strike setbacks, Premier Couve de Murville has turned to "the only policy imaginable" - swift economic expansion. In keeping with that goal, the French Cabinet last week unveiled a 1969 budget that calls for an 11% increase in government spending, to $30 billion. While creating a deficit of about $2.5 billion, such outlays are expected to help boost French industrial production by 7% next year, enabling the French economy to achieve a substantial 5½% to 6% growth...
...month in Honolulu of continued U.S. support, Thieu has been preaching a hard line on the war and against negotiations with the Communists that lends a considerable air of unreality to some of his pronouncements. He has left much of the country's day-to-day administration to Premier Tran Van Huong, 64, a onetime schoolteacher widely respected for his political acumen and his honesty. Huong moved into the Prime Minister's office at No. 7 Thong Nhut (Unity Street) eleven weeks ago, with the warning that corruption, a problem frequently discussed but little acted...
Despite all the problems, or perhaps because of them, Thieu and Huong seem to be working reasonably well together. The Premier holds far more leverage than Nguyen Van Loc, his predecessor whom Thieu fired, mainly because Thieu cannot afford another Cabinet change at this time. The President listens to Huong's suggestions although he does not always act on them, particularly when they involve corruption among the military or the subject of peace talks. Huong was upset when Peace Candidate Dzu was sentenced last month to five years at hard labor for advocating talks with the National Liberation Front...