Word: primes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President's speech assailing one of the most distinguished American statesmen of our time was given free, prime-time national television coverage. Irony of ironies...
Though many Western nations criticize U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and defy American wishes by trading with Hanoi, only Sweden has gone so far as to announce that it will provide funds for the North. Sweden's new Prime Minister, Olof Palme, following plans laid down by his predecessor, intends to provide North Viet Nam with $45 million in foreign aid. Two-thirds of the assistance, which extends over a three-year period beginning next July, will be a loan. The rest will be an outright gift...
...Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia's all-white government, which rules a black majority, declared last week that his country was growing stronger despite the United Nations sanctions against it. Though U.N. member states are supposed to boycott Rhodesian exports, Smith claimed that many countries of the free world were quietly helping Rhodesia. On the fourth anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, Smith said that Rhodesia expects a 10% increase this year in its gross national product, "exceptional by any standard." But British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart recently told the House of Commons that Rhodesia...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson promised that following the next elections, which by law need not be held before spring 1971, he would appoint a commission to decide whether the Queen should be given a raise. One member of the royal family already received a pay hike. Prince Charles, who last week marked his 21st birthday at a palace party at which the ladies were allowed to wear pants suits, is now entitled to the full $528,000 annual income from the Duchy of Cornwall, half of which he will generously turn back to the national treasury...
During a New Year's Day broadcast last January, Canada's bachelor Prime Minister lamented that 1968 had passed without allowing him "to make the kind of deal I would have liked. This year." he added, "I'll be taking initiatives." Pierre Elliott Trudeau was still working at that resolution last week; he flew to New York for two weekend dates with Singer Barbra Streisand. There was dinner and dancing on Friday night, the Polish Lab Theater on Sunday, and a barrage of questions from gossip columnists. How serious was it? When newsmen asked that question...