Word: statement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world by refusing to devalue the franc, which was already weak and unsteady. Pompidou, a former Rothschild banker, could not bring himself to defy reality. "Common sense advises us to align the franc on a rate recognized in foreign markets," he explained to the French in a special statement. "We content ourselves with taking note of a fact and acting...
...sent a note to the Soviet Union. It asked Moscow whether it would be interested in talks between West and East Germany about reducing tensions "in and around Berlin and between the two parts of Germany." The proposal was in reply to Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko's recent statement that Russia would welcome talks about "normalizing" the status of Berlin. The British, French and the Americans made the offer primarily to put the ball back in the Soviets' court, while not endangering the 24-year-old Allied occupation rights in West Berlin, which lies 110 miles inside East...
...Czechoslovakia's two top leaders, Party Boss Gustav Husák and President Ludvik Svoboda, are on "vacation" in the Crimea, where they have met with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and President Nikolai Podgorny. In all likelihood, the Russians openly pressed Husák to sign a statement formally approving the invasion; so far, he has stopped just short of doing that. But undoubtedly, they added a final warning that Moscow has ordered Aug. 21 to be a cool...
...whites who have bothered to become Zambian citizens. Unruffled, Skinner backed up his fellow judge: the ruling had not been politically motivated, he replied. Skinner asserted the judiciary's right to "criticize the executive or its individual servants." Kaunda's office retaliated with a statement that sounded threatening: "The President now knows where the judiciary stands, and he will deal with the matter...
...home in the span of seven pitches. Martin insists that stealing home, despite its rarity, is easier than a theft of second base because a smart runner can get a sizable jump on a pitcher, especially if the hurler is going into a full windup. Carew makes that arguable statement sound unassailable. "Each time he stole home," says Martin, "you'd think he'd been shot out of a cannon...