Word: quay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Netherlands Premier Jan de Quay announced that he would send 1,400 more troops to New Guinea this week, the minority Calvinist Anti-Revolutionary Party in his four-party coalition government threatened to defect rather than risk voters' ire. The troubled Calvinists re quested a postponement of the debate. Su karno increased the pressure on Dutch public opinion by offering to send his pow erful vice premier, Mohammad Yamin -who is in charge of Sukarno's West Irian "development planning" - to Washington for a new round of talks on a settlement...
...scheduled to visit Indonesia during his good-will tour (see THE NATION). While news of State's reversal came too late to prevent the Indonesian tantrum, it was in plenty of time to infuriate the Dutch. "I don't understand this," fumed Prime Minister Jan de Quay. Said Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad: "Another illusion went up in smoke. Reality is facing us more and more clearly. The fairy tale of American good will toward The Netherlands' standpoint cannot be sold any more, not even to the most gullible soul...
...identically worded notes to Djakarta and The Hague, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant urged both governments to refrain from "precipitate action" and resume negotiations aimed at seeking a peaceful solution. Netherlands Prime Minister Jan de Quay accepted U Thant's proposal, reported that his military commanders had orders to act with the "utmost restraint." At week's end, Indonesia's Sukarno agreed to negotiate a settlement "in conformity with the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter...
...Godesberg was turned into a virtual armed camp. Some 2,000 green-clad state police deployed around the white Redoute, a graceful 18th century mansion now a restaurant that the government occasionally takes over for major fetes. Italy's Premier Fanfani, The Netherlands' Premier de Quay, Belgium's Premier Lefevre, Luxembourg's Premier Werner came early. Last to arrive were De Gaulle and West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer; then the whole group got down to business: drafting a "European declaration" to serve as a guide toward the ultimate political unity to which...
...crowd of 200 citizens lined up respectfully behind the rope barriers and watched as the 125-ft. yacht North Wind backed up to the quay at the thyme-scented village of Epidaurus. A tall, handsome young woman stepped from the yacht and walked the length of the pier alone, followed at a distance by her four yachting companions. She was tawny with the Aegean sun, barelegged, dressed casually in a sleeveless beige dress-and it was hard to realize that she was the same Jacqueline Kennedy who had swept like a queen through Paris, Vienna and London only...