Word: springs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps more solid credentials of intellect and experience?if not on the historic scale of a De Gaulle?to take over his country than any other Western political peers. The engineer of most of De Gaulle's last triumphs, the administrator of France's return to order after last spring's chaos, Pompidou was unceremoniously dismissed from office by De Gaulle in July. From the role of rejected dauphin he moved skillfully to become a visible alternative to De Gaulle's rule. In the process, he may even have hastened the general's farewell to power...
...franc. In the two weeks immediately preceding the election, small businessmen staged two strikes over the tax issue?the first in their history. Big businessmen, on the other hand, were concerned about shrinking profits and the "participation" that De Gaulle had promised their workers following the chaos of last spring. The workers, in turn, resented both inflation and the higher taxes that De Gaulle had imposed in order to save the franc last fall. De Gaulle had juggled France's finances in an effort to satisfy both workers and businessmen; he had succeeded in pleasing neither and frightening both...
...week managed to take the political news in stride. "Imagine if Premier Couve de Murville were to become President," groaned one. "Saying 'Vive De Gaulle' was easy enough, but what a time we would have shouting 'Vive Couve de Murville.' " Another, noting that Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of last spring's student rioting, had been out of action lately, shrugged...
...stultifying parts of De Gaulle's rule that produced the chaos of last spring. It began with students protesting against the archaic and unfair practices of France's education system...
Burning actuality took up most of his time. Beginning with the 1967 election preliminaries, Pompidou assumed close management of the Gaullist party, personally selecting many of its candidates and maintaining ties with the winners in Parliament. His control became dominant in the crisis-ridden atmosphere of last spring, when he even advised De Gaulle not to follow through on his promise of a personal referendum. Instead, Pompidou cannily proposed the alternative of parliamentary elections, on which only Pompidou's?not the general's?prestige would be staked. "If you lose the referendum, Mon Général, the regime is lost...