Word: renard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plastic bombs went off all week long. One exploded at the house of Culture Minister André Malraux, but the famed author of Man's Fate was not at home. The detonation drove 300 splinters of glass into the face and body of four-year-old Delphine Renard, whose engineer father occupied the ground floor. Doctors last week operated in the hope of saving her sight...
...from President Kennedy and rushed into the fray. His broad face loomed from Socialist posters all over Belgium, and party workers declared that as a moderate, and a notable orator, he was just the man to counteract the alarm produced in staid Belgian voters by rabble-rousing André Renard, whose strikers had kept the nation paralyzed for five weeks and cost the economy an estimated $150 million...
Predictably excepted were the zealous followers of Labor Leader André Renard. After a harangue from Renard, 600 of his workers rioted through the streets of Liège. Renard's intransigence kept the big steel plants closed, but other Liège strikers deserted him. Streetcars ran and coal mines were operating. Furthermore, Renard had antagonized most of his fellow Socialists. At week's end even he gave up, bowed to a union leaders' vote to end the strike...
...Socialists in Parliament, for whose stodgy, bourgeois caution Renard has undisguised contempt, were as aghast as anyone at Renard's disregard for orderly processes. In the debate on Eyskens' controversial bill, Socialist members made it clear they were prepared to compromise if a face-saving device could be found. "We must discuss things together," admitted Socialist ex-Premier Achille van Acker. In return, Eyskens agreed to consider a Socialist amendment. Then, exhausted, the Premier fainted in the Chamber, was led away to a sickbed before the vote on the measure brought victory to the government...
Victory would not necessarily be lasting. Whatever his fellow - Socialists in Parliament might do. Andre Renard was prepared to fight on. In his Walloon stronghold of Namur. 400 Socialist political leaders passed a resolution demanding that the Walloons should be free to break away and "choose their own means of social and economic expansion." At week's end Renard still commanded his loyal crowds, still recklessly kept his country balancing on the edge of anarchy...