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Whether Segni chooses Moro or sticks with Fanfani, the premiership will probably be no more than a caretaker's position for the next two months. For not until mid-July will Nenni's Socialists hold their annual convention and decide whether or not to stick with the Christian Democrats and keep the center-left alliance alive...
...through the Réunion tactic known as the "promenade." in which opposition voters are sent fruitlessly from polling place to polling place, being told at each that they are not registered there. De Gaulle now views Debré with a more kindly eye than he did during his premiership a year ago; according to waggish Paris comment, Pompidou was like a mistress whom De Gaulle saw with pleasure, but who lost many of his charms when he became la légitime, that is, wife. If De Gaulle gives the expected nod, Michel Debré will take over...
...Guesswork. It is not easy to say who should be believed. From Jeremy Wolfenden, London Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow, came word that "Russian sources decisively reject the idea that Mr. Khrushchev will retire either from the premiership or the secretaryship of the party." Merle Fainsod, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, said Crankshaw "is spinning things out rather thin." William Griffith, research associate on Communist affairs at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, declared, "I would not say that the weight of evidence is on Crankshaw's side." But just in case it was, Griffith...
...votes in a total of 569,781, Manley, after seven years in office, was defeated. Manley won the big towns. But Bustamante was the hero of the sugar cane workers. His party won 26 of the 45 seats in the House of Representatives, returning the aging "Chief" to the premiership that he had held from...
...became Premier, while ten other members of his Republican People's Party received Cabinet posts. To the Justice Party, political heirs of the late Democratic Premier Adnan Menderes-Inonu's archrival, who was executed by the junta last September-also went eleven portfolios, including the deputy premiership, important in view of Inonu...