Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos was less reticent. He accused Hanoi of turning his country "into an active transit route for North Vietnamese troops going to South Viet Nam," and added that there were at least 40,000 fighting men from North Viet Nam permanently stationed in Laos...
...week began on a hopeful note that quickly turned ominous. Premier Georges Pompidou and union leaders, after all-night negotiations, agreed early Monday morning to huge and highly inflationary wage settlements in order to end the strike that had idled half of France's 16 million-man industrial work force. Then, at plant after plant, the workers rejected the settlements and called for creation of a popular-front government of Socialists and Communists. It was a shattering blow to De Gaulle. He had been operating on the assumption that he could buy off the workers, whose demands until then...
...Communist left, next day made an open bid for power. Summoning the press to a gilded salon in the Hotel Continental, he called for the establishment of a provisional government of the left to prepare for the election of a President to replace De Gaulle. He suggested former Premier Pierre Mendès-France be leader of the provisional regime-a proposal to which Mendès-France quickly agreedèand announced his own intention to run for the presidency in the elections. Other politicians took up the cry for the formation of "a government of public salvation...
Russian Troops. The removal of Novotný from the Central Committee reflect's Dubček's growing strength, and he plans to consolidate it at a special party congress in September. Dubček, however, had to make certain concessions last month to visiting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. He promised, for one thing, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Warsaw Pact by permitting "staff exercises" in Czechoslovakia of troops from the Soviet bloc. The soldiers, most of them from the signal corps, were prompt to arrive. At week's end, the first of about...
Still more cause for concern is the likely inflationary impact of any settlement. The package negotiated by Premier Georges Pompidou-and rejected by most of the nation's striking workers -included an increase in the minimum wage from 440 to 600 an hour, a 10% general pay increase for all workers in private industry, a 40-hour week (v. an average 46.3 hours now), and improved social security medical benefits. That settlement would cost at least a total of $3 billion, but the strikers wanted more...