Word: vanden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bottles & Songs. The ever-present rivalry had been comparatively quiescent during the two-year reign of Premier Paul Vanden Boeynants' center-right coalition government. Then Louvain's Flemish students, who make up 55% of the enrollment, demanded that the linguistically divided university be broken up and the French-speaking part moved into Wallonia (a linguistic frontier drawn up in 1963 places Louvain seven miles inside Flanders). Moving the French-speaking students and professors to Wallonia would cost an estimated $140 million and seriously damage the prestige and resources of the 543-year-old institution...
...speaking students and singing We Shall Overcome. While police turned fire hoses on the demonstrators, Louvain's governing board of bishops met and themselves divided along linguistic lines about the university's future. They turned the problem over to the government and, when eight Flemish ministers of Vanden Boeynants' moderate Christian Socialist Party threatened to resign unless the students got their way, Vanden Boeynants tried in vain for a compromise. When none could be agreed upon, Vanden Boeynants handed King Baudouin his government's resignation. His Cabinet will remain as caretaker until a new government...
Victory Marches. Defiant Flemish students, feeling a step closer to their goal, staged victory marches through the cobblestoned streets of Louvain, chanting Flemish slogans and bringing out the cops again. "Whenever the language issue crops up in this country," noted Vanden Boeynants sadly, "passion takes over." Language is the surface issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth...
...Bless You." Unlike previous Kennedy trips outside the country, this one was conducted sotto voce-there were no formal public speeches-and minus retinue. He even left his wife Ethel home, traveled with just two U.S. newsmen and one unofficial aide, New York Attorney William vanden Heuvel. One left-at-home assistant was incredulous: "Who's paying the taxi drivers? Who's finding the cuff links?" Who, indeed? Kennedy arrived in Bonn with one cuff waving. These and other mishaps were minor, although he was obliged at the Oxford Union to detour via a ladies' lavatory...
...Cambridge Civic Association will discuss the City's poverty problem at its annual meeting Tuesday night at the Hotel Continental. William vanden Heuvel, New England area Director of the Community Action program of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and John C. Cort, executive director of the Commonwealth Service Crops, will speak. The 3 p.m. meeting is open to the public free of charge...