Word: premier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis put it to Makarios bluntly. The Greek government was already bound by the Zurich agreement and had no intention of going back on it. Karamanlis laid down an ultimatum: take this agreement or bear the blame for wrecking the conference. With twelve hours to decide, Makarios spent the night "in prayer and reflection." Next morning at 8 he summoned his advisers, told them that he had decided to accept the agreement. The steamroller had worked...
...followers as if the tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...Italy's financial capital of Milan last week, a lethargic stock market suddenly rallied. Conservative Italian newspapers congratulated the nation's politicians on their good sense. Ostensible cause for the rejoicing: the appointment of 68-year-old Antonio Segni as Italy's new Premier. A more fundamental cause: the fact that after months of talk about an inevitable drift toward socialism, Italian politics had taken a sharp right turn...
When proud little Amintore Fanfani resigned as Premier three weeks ago, Italy's big Christian Democratic Party seemed hopelessly divided against itself and listing to the left. The Christian Democrats lack 26 votes of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, and Fanfani was kept in office only by the support of Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats. When some of the Social Democrats, hoodwinked by Red-lining Pietro Nenni's latest simulated split with the Communists, began to negotiate a deal with Nenni's Socialists, Fanfani was finished. After days of maneuvering, President Giovanni Gronchi...
...dependent on them." Catholic Deputy Fred-Bertrand, a former miner, shouted in reply: "Do you think you'll attract foreign companies and new investment by creating this revolution?" A government minister promised "replacement jobs" for the miners but was hooted down when unable to give any details. Premier Gaston Eyskens refused to consider nationalizing the mines, argued that the liabilities as well as the benefits of the six-nation Coal and Steel Community must be accepted: "Belgium can no longer decide on its own coal policy or even its own economic policy. We have to adapt ourselves...