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...four months since he assumed the premiership, Kishi has refused to be scared by left-wing Japanese political attacks against U.S. bases in Okinawa, but at the same time has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. should relinquish some of its control over Okinawa's civil administration. He has stoutly opposed both the U.S. and Russian refusal to halt H-bomb tests, but he has gone publicly and vigorously on record in favor of a common front against both Russian and Chinese Communism...
...23rd time since World War II, French politicians sweated through the ceremonial dance of trying to form a government. President René Coty first offered the premiership to René Pleven, then to Antoine Pinay. Both refused. Pleven had been Defense Minister during Dienbienphu, feared ugly comparisons with the Algerian war. Parliamentary arithmetic ruled out any candidate without Socialist support, something Right-Winger Pinay could not get. Finally, the President summoned tall, white-haired Pierre Pflimlin, 50, to his oak-paneled office at the Elysee Palace for a two-hour talk, then walked him to the threshold and said...
...sped south, bound for the rambling Cambodian seaside resort of Kep, 90 miles away by the green waters of the Gulf of Siam. Inside the big car, lonely and unhappy, sat cherub-faced Norodom Sihanouk, who gave up his throne to serve as Premier and had already resigned the premiership three times in less than two years. Behind him in Pnompenh Prince Sihanouk left with his father, King Suramarit, a statement of his intention to resign for the fourth time...
Sihanouk took back the premiership of his country only eight weeks ago, after sacking dutiful Premier San Yun in a welter of malicious and unproved charges that San Yun had been doling out valuable import licenses, mostly for high-priced consumer goods, to assorted ministers' wives, political chairwarmers, and some ladies closely related to the royal family itself...
Except for his general feeling of discouragement over the state of his nation, his party and his stomach, nobody knew just why Burma's top man U Nu chose to step down from the premiership nine months ago. Last week, except for the fact that his astrologers had declared the moment auspicious (11:15 a.m., March 1), nobody knew just why U Nu had chosen to take power again. But when U Nu gave the word, the Burmese Parliament without a dissenting vote accepted the resignation of interim Premier U Ba Swe and named U Nu in his place...