Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politically, the competition ahead in France's multiparty political arena may well bring back memories of the crisis-laden Fourth Republic. As a result of the revolt, most French political experts feel that the Gaullist party will never again place enough members in the National Assembly to form a working majority. If the present Assembly were dissolved at any time soon, the feeling at the moment among most French politicians is that the so-called combined left?Communists plus Mitterrand's assortment of Socialists-would command a solid majority in which the Communist ratio would be higher than...
...Premier is appointed by the President. There is a widespread conviction in France that De Gaulle will never select anyone but a Gaullist to serve as head of government. If De Gaulle should resign and new presidential elections were held, the situation would be completely different. As a result, speculation about France's political future inevitably centers on who might win the presidency après De Gaulle. Mitterrand, while effective with other politicians, has a slightly tarnished "old pol" image among French voters. Similarly, the candidates from the right?Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing?for the moment, at least, seem...
...explain France's eruption. The workers certainly did not go to the barricades because of censorship, the young did not rebel because of bad art or poor music. But all these things taken together caused the new mood in France, a crisis of attitudes. Ultimately what happened was the result of simply having too much De Gaulle. "Without me, this country wouldn't be anything," he once said. "Without me, it would all have collapsed. For years, I've carried France on my shoulders." No nation with any pretense to vitality can indefinitely be carried on the shoulders...
...Bonny channel and set it permanently ablaze. To guard against aerial attacks, they mounted heavy artillery atop the city's tallest buildings, and drove barbed stakes into open fields as protection against paratroopers. They even put nozzles on oil pipelines, converting them into instant flamethrowers. As a result, the Nigerian forces were forced to take a painstakingly slow route overland from the eastern seaport of Calabar, lugging tons of military supplies and hundreds of cases of "Star"-brand lager beer...
...make a charge of libel stick, the Supreme Court has held, "there must be sufficient evidence to permit the conclusion that the defendant in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication." If he did, he was guilty of recklessness and malice, and, as a result, libel. Ginzburg may yet persuade an appeals court that he was neither reckless nor malicious...