Word: communique
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrested members of the High National Council. Huong and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu agreed to convene a "national convention" as soon as possible to act as a legislature; in the meantime, the aging, feeble Suu would exercise "legislative powers." "The political crisis is considered ended," announced a communiqué, and the U.S. embassy cautiously welcomed the deal as "a promising step in the direction of . . . stable and effective government...
...Paris. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder was being more American than the Americans and was still defending MLF when the U.S. had already begun to move away. For his pains, Schröder was slapped down hard by the French, who refused to sign even an innocuous communiqué proposing new approaches to Moscow for a possible German settlement...
...appeared to turn toward dangerous desperation. After his own fast, Tarn Chau, the sect's political coordinator, led 500 monks and nuns in another 24-hour hunger strike; before beginning it, a group of the bonzes prudently tucked into a hearty breakfast outside their pagoda. Then a Buddhist communiqué claimed that Tri Quang, leader of northern and central Buddhists, was continuing his original fast into a sixth day. Quang is said to like fasting, on grounds that it "clears the head...
...There will always be between us, I am sure, a special alliance." There were more immediate matters to discuss. The Brazilians having promised to compensate the former French owners of the Sāo Paulo-Rio Grande railroad nationalized in 1940, De Gaulle and President Castello Branco issued a communiqué expressing the hope that "the two governments will reach fully satisfactory results as rapidly as possible regarding the other questions still pending between France and Brazil." The most outstanding of these problems is the Brazilian claim that once Brazilian, a lobster always remains Brazilian, no matter...
...confrontation but cooperation," causing a stir by suggesting that the conference send a mission to Red China urging them not to test their nuclear bomb. The delegates quickly ducked that idea, but also resisted the more incendiary language of Sukarno & Co. The conference painfully put together a sweeping final communiqué damning "neo-imperialism," predictably citing South Africa and Angola, but preposterously including even Puerto Rico. The U.S. was told to get out of Guantanamo, Britain out of Aden, France off Martinique, Israel out of Palestine...