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...foreign policy. Most of his efforts were focused on the area most vital to France-Europe. Like De Gaulle, he envisaged a unified Europe composed of sovereign nations that would be strong enough to resist becoming dependent on either the Soviet Union or the U.S. More pragmatic than his predecessor, Pompidou agreed to let Britain join the Common Market (De Gaulle had twice vetoed the proposal). Pompidou also sponsored European summit meetings and even let some French military units participate occasionally in NATO maneuvers...
...move to disperse the enormous sphere of power and influence built up by Bennett and his predecessor Paul C. Cabot '32, also of State Street, began last spring when Putnam was chosen to succeed Bennett and State Street and Harvard concluded it was about time to change portfolio managers...
...Mario Savio's--that Savio's "managerial tyranny" with little interest in truth or anything else worth respecting was trying to manage their lives, and generally succeeding. SDS, continuing its block-by-block organizing around local issues in Roxbury and North Harvard but increasingly returning to its predecessor Tocsin's roots in antiwar organizing, doubled its 100 members in the fall...
Last December, Walter Stoessel, 54, formerly Ambassador to Warsaw, was named Ambassador to Moscow. Secretary Kissinger is not permitted to do to Stoessel what Presidential Adviser Kissinger did to Stoessel's predecessor, Jacob Beam: in 1972, while he was negotiating detente with the Kremlin, Kissinger sneaked into Moscow without even telling Beam that he was coming...
...would you compare your regime with that of your predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser...