Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Some Say . . ." The Sardauna, on becoming Premier in 1954. launched a massive campaign against his region's almost total illiteracy. But he has never been particularly keen on upsetting too many traditions. "Some here say," explains the Sardauna, "that the chiefs must be set aside. But the great majority...
Fidel Castro's revolution had never moved at higher speed. Grinding out decree after decree last week, the Prime Minister ordered some 500 prisoners turned over to civilian courts, promised to restore the right of habeas corpus within 90 days, reopened the University of Havana, confiscated the holdings of...
BRITAIN : There was no such agreement. If a Big Four minister objected to the Germans speaking, the session would be adjourned and the problem threshed out.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko set the style, soon became a topic of conversation among newsmen surpassing both the friskings by Swiss police and the frisky Swiss barmaids at press headquarters in Geneva's "Batiment Electoral." Landing in Geneva, Gromyko made a pithy statement specifically prepared to make pithy...
Displaying a showman's neat touch, Kharlamov once produced Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin to field questions, later used the old politician's trick of calling a surprise session at noon in order to hit the afternoon papers with a fresh story (the claim that Russia would...