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...uneasy that De Gaulle might try to embroil Greece in his quarrel with Britain over the Common Market, and with the U.S. over NATO defense. It was France, not Greece, which had pushed the trip. De Gaulle had picked up an invitation made seven years before to then President René Coty. Paris also suggested that the French fleet drop anchor in the Piraeus to coincide with De Gaulle's arrival, and discreetly broached the plan of having De Gaulle address the Greek public, as he had done with such success during his German tour last year. When Greek...
...finally relented and at week's end allowed the asylees to begin flying out of Haiti. Color Line. With most Latin American nations standing against him, Duvalier sent an emissary flying to Manhattan to plead his case before the United Nations Security Council. Haiti's Foreign Minister René Chalmers pictured poor Negro Haiti as surrounded on all sides by enemies. "The Haitian people are determined to defend their sovereignty and independence, and in so doing they are defending the cause of the black peoples," said Chalmers. "The independence of the only black nation in America must...
...Died. René Fülôp-Miller, 72, multi-faceted biographer (Rasputin: The Holy Devil, 1928), historian (The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, 1930), novelist (The Night of Time, 1955) and student of psychology, philosophy and Communism, a Hungarian-born pharmacist's son who journeyed to Leningrad in 1923 where he studied in Pavlov's Institute of Experimental Medicine while observing Bolshevism's early years, then went to Vienna in 1927 to study with Freud for a year before joining a colony of Greek hermit monks, and in 1930 came to the U.S. where...
...even $42 million is not available. Last week UNESCO Secretary-General René Maheu added up what had been gathered by passing the international hat. Egypt pledged $11.5 million. West Germany gave $1,845,000, Italy $1,800,000. India $714,000, Cuba $160.000. In all. 37 countries contributed, including Bolivia and Nepal, each of which gave $1,000, but the total is more than $22 million short...
...brothers who took over the small Central American country in 1956 after the assassination of their father, stuck to their promise that no Somoza would appear on the ballot. But the boys will have a friend in the palace. Elected President by a landslide was former Foreign Minister René Schick, 53, hand-picked choice of the Somozas' Nationalist Liberal Party...