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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capitalism." He also criticized the Gaullist regime for failing to provide adequate schools and transport for satellite communities like Les Yvelines. Couve, gamely making the rounds of shopkeepers, stressed the need for De Gaulle's worker "participation" program. After the first round of voting, Rocard was barely in second place, 5,109 votes behind Couve. But in the runoff, centrist and leftist candidates, united only by their anti-Gaullism, lined up behind Rocard. He trounced Couve...
Franco had two contending groups from which to choose. One was the Falange, the blue-shirted quasi-fascist organization that helped catapult him to power during the Civil War and has been a major source of his political strength ever since. The second is a shadowy group of technocrats who belong to or sympathize with a Roman Catholic organization of laymen and priests known as the Sacerdotal Society of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. It was Opus Dei last week that gained the Franco patrimony. At least ten of the 19 members of the new Cabinet are associated with...
Kikuyu and Luo, first and second largest of Kenya's 46 main tribes, have long controlled the country's politics. Initially, neither Kenyatta's Kenya African
...Labor Leader Gough Whitlam, 53, laid out a program of social reforms, including a free health scheme and free university education at a cost of $15.6 million a year, and an emergency school grant of $112 million to cover immediate needs. His emphasis on domestic issues, which normally take second place in Australian elections to foreign affairs, appealed to the young voters. So did his wit. Once, when Gorton boasted that he wrote his own speeches. Whitlam retorted: "I have listened to the Prime Minister's speeches and I believe...
...wreckers went to work, so did the fossil hunters. They hosed and washed more than 300 suspect stones, chipped at them with hammer and chisel and then examined every square inch of visible surface. By the second day, they had found two large blocks, weighing about 500 Ibs. each, that showed distinct fossil markings. Back in New Haven, Ostrom made precise measurements. Though the fossil bones still must be carefully removed from their brownstone encasement. Ostrom is now convinced that the long search is over. One of the visible bones, he says, is an almost sure match to half...