UDK World News
By United Press International
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French told to brace for political struggle
PARIS — Charles de Gaulle's resignation brought hints of the dire consequences he had predicted. The franc tumbled in value and the interim president appealed for "scrupulous respect for the law" in the coming political power struggle.
Alain Poher, who automatically became acting president by virtue of his office as French Senate president, addressed a generally somber and quiet France on television. Beginning exactly as De Gaulle always did with the salutation, "Frenchwomen, Frenchmen!," he implored them:
"Over and above the divergencies brought out by Sunday's vote, you will feel deeply, as I do, I am sure, that we must first of all, all of us, preserve the unity of the nation.
"We will achieve this by scrupulous respect for the law,
which is incumbent upon the interim president, the government which remains in office, the elected assemblies and all Frenchmen . . .
"Frenchwomen and Frenchmemen, the future of the motherland rests in your hands."
Politicians of all political stripes have begun jockeying for position in the struggle that will choose a new president of the fifth republic and determine whether France will embark on a course moving the nation closer to the United States and the countries of Western Europe.
Former Premier Georges Pompidou, 57, and Poher himself, 60, emerged as two of the strongest candidates.
De Gaulle, 78, was in silent secclusion at his country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, his 11-year rule as president ended under an avalanche of votes that
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buried the constitutional reforms on which he had staked his political life in referendum on Sunday.
The mood in Paris, after an initial burst of jubilation at De
Irish chief resigns
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Premier Terrence O'Neill resigned yesterday as leader of the governing Unionist party, bowing to opponents of his civil rights concessions to Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority.
O'Neill, 54, said he also would resign as premier when a new party chief is chosen.
Militant leaders of Irish Protestants, who outnumber Catholics 2-1 in this nation of 1.5 million, accused O'Neill of being soft on Catholics in acceding to their demands for
equal voting rights and other civil rights.
O'Neill last week won Unionist party approval in principle for his plan to extend the vote equally to all citizens. Only property owners currently have the right to vote in Northern Ireland, their number of votes determined by the property valuation. Since Catholics constitute most of the poor, their numerical minority is even more sharply reflected at the polls.
The Protestant-Catholic confrontation has led to steadily
increasing violence for the past six months. During the past week, O'Neill requested British troops to guard vital utilities and installations from a wave of sabotage that has curtailed the capital's water and power supplies. Rioting has continued almost daily in Belfast.
Politically, O'Neill's party has been split over the civil rights issue.
Party Secretary Jim Bainne said members require 48 hours notice for a meeting in which to pick a new leader, indicating a successor would be named later this week.
Lin Piao named Mao's successor in constitution
HONG KONG — Communist China officially unveiled a new constitution yesterday that specifically names Defense Minister Lin Piao as successor to party Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
Radio Peking, in a broadcast monitored here, also reported that the party's new Central Committee elected its Political Bureau, Politburo, with Mao, Lin and other top leaders retaining their customary positions.
The election of the 21-member politiburo and its standing committee contained few surprises. The five members of the standing committee, the group that theoretically wields the most power in China, were all re-elected.
Details of the new constitution, particularly regarding Lin's succession, had been reported earlier when the Communist Chinese party gave it unanimous approval at the recently concluded Ninth Party Congress.
Mao and Lin were named again as Politburo and standing committee chairman and vice chairman, matching their offices in the party and central committee.
Gaule's resignation by students on the Left Bank, was one of watchful waiting for the presidential elections that will probably be held on June 1.
In Bonn, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt said he saw chances for progress in unifying Europe with De Gaulle's demise. Similar expressions came from London where Britain hoped a new French president would lower the bars De Gaulle had erected to British entry in the Common Market.
Pearson says French franc is threatened
WASHINGTON — Kansas Sen. James Pearson said that the resignation of French President Charles de Gaulle could cause a return of France to NATO, but it also raised the possibility of a new monetary crisis.
"It could threaten not only the French franc," said the Kansas Republican yesterday, "but it could put heavy pressure on the American dollar.
"However much we thought De Gaulle was an obstacle," Pearson said, "We must admit that he served for 11 eventful and sometimes dangerous years, providing stability and he was a keystone against Communist expansion."
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