Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Youngest Captain. Although Yankee Clipper capsized as it hit the water, the astronauts quickly righted their craft by inflating three large flotation bags attached to its tip. Lifted aboard the aircraft carrier by helicopter, the crew was hustled into the same mobile quarantine van that housed the men of Apollo...
The business of the "kings"-in reality the President of France, the Chancellor of West Germany and the Premiers of Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-is to determine how badly they want this economic union to endure and what they should do to revive its impetus. There was a...
Bureaucrats and Butterbergs. The result is that the Common Market today is still little more than an imperfect customs union-which is precisely what France's President Georges Pompidou sneeringly called it while serving as De Gaulle's Premier. Joint policies on money and transportation have never been...
Last week Husák all but completed his cleanup of the country's legislatures by forcing 63 liberals out of the Czech National Council, the parliamentary body for the Czech-speaking part of the country. Previously, liberals in the federal Parliament had been replaced by hardliners. Among those...
The fight is not quite over. The bill will probably be passed by the Senate, despite the bitter opposition of Senate President (and former Premier) Amintore Fanfani. Even then, the anti-divorce forces have one last stratagem. They will press for a referendum next year to give the Italian people...