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...Madame du Barry. Was he anti-American? Indeed not, insisted De Gaulle. "In truth, who has been the ally of the Americans from end to end if not the France of De Gaulle?" What about fears that he was about to destroy the Common Market? "Nothing is more logical today than to create a common European market," said De Gaulle, though he could not resist adding, "on condition, of course, that it is not adorned with unacceptable political conditions." Then he was opposed to European political unity? "From the time I have been French, I have been European," replied...
...television, "but unfortunately, not exact." Mitterrand made plain his own unequivocal support for the Atlantic Alliance and a truly united political Europe. "It is sad to note," he observed, "how much Gaullism has come to resemble Vichy, with a monarch and a little court." De Gaulle was like Madame du Barry before the guillotine, he said, pleading "Just another moment, just another moment, Mr. Executioner." The force de frappe? "De Gaulle's diplomatic toy, about as effective for France as the Maginot Line...
...negotiated transatlantic cargo tie-ups with Seaboard World Airlines, Inc., Pan Am and McLean Industries, which operates a fleet of huge, specially designed piggyback freighters. DC began talking with dozens of potential American clients even before the West Friesland deal went through, got some swift results. "The European Du Pont operation had recently canceled its contract with West Friesland," says DC's London-born president, Leslie G. Taylor. "We turned that contract back on in five minutes...
...final blow came early last week when the Kasavubu government organized a "spontaneous demonstration" of leftist youths, who burned homemade Belgian flags, marched up Leo-poldville's broad Boulevard du 30 Juin under a forest of banners ("Long Live Nkrumah and Kasavubu," "Down with the Yankees," "Tshombe to the Firing Squad"), and tried to break into Parliament. The army arrested the ringleaders, but when Nendaka's police promptly set them free, Mobutu decided that it was time to step in. He summoned his 14 regional commanders to Leopoldville, where in a conference that lasted until...
...firm in the attic of his father's house in Weehawken, NJ. Ultimately Engineer Diebold hired businessmen and technicians to work for him while he supervised his firm's growth and actively promoted his ideas and himself. He is currently selling advice to Lockheed, Du Pont, Agfa, Xerox, IBM, Allstate Insurance, Philips Lamp, Westinghouse and 250 other companies...