Word: premiered
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Bottles & Songs. The ever-present rivalry had been comparatively quiescent during the two-year reign of Premier Paul Vanden Boeynants' center-right coalition government. Then Louvain's Flemish students, who make up 55% of the enrollment, demanded that the linguistically divided university be broken up and the French-speaking part moved into Wallonia (a linguistic frontier drawn up in 1963 places Louvain seven miles inside Flanders). Moving the French-speaking students and professors to Wallonia would cost an estimated $140 million and seriously damage the prestige and resources of the 543-year-old institution...
Canada's ten provincial premiers met with Prime Minister Lester Pearson in Ottawa last week to attack a problem that has bothered Canada for more than a century. Pearson was seriously concerned about the country's 6,000,000 French Canadians, who in recent years have felt increasingly isolated and restless among Canada's English-speaking majority-so much so that many of them have begun to call for the outright secession of French-speaking Quebec. Aware, as Pearson put it, that any such divorce would produce "rupture, and loss and pain," the ministers took only three...
...sharp contrast to the low-key U.S. approach was North Korea's pugnacity. Speaking in Pyongyang, the capital, Soviet-trained Premier Kim II Sung warned that he was readying his military machine for a full-scale war that "may break out again at any moment." Reinforcing Kim's threat, the Soviet Union ordered a powerful 13-vessel squadron into the Sea of Japan as a counterforce to the strong U.S. task force there. While the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise moved from a point 45 miles off the North Korean coast to about 100 miles in a tension-easing...
...World War II. A running feud with two powerful Politburo members-whose pro-Peking sentiments were resented by the strongly nationalistic Giap-kept him well down in Hanoi's Communist pecking order. Although he is North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, military commander and Vice Premier-and a popular hero second only to Ho Chi Minh-Giap has still not risen above sixth place in his party's official hierarchy...
...Premier Papadopoulos, whose latest instruction to police chiefs was that it is better to let a guilty man go free than imprison an innocent one, was trying to make certain that his government abided by such precepts. Leftist Composer Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek), who was arrested four months ago for plotting to overthrow the regime, was released from prison. Two Athenian newsmen were also set free. Even so, some 2,500 prisoners remained on the Aegean islands of Ieros and Yiaros in camps that originally held Communist detainees during the 1946-49 civil...