Word: premier
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Yamit's residents are Israeli and intend to remain so. Their streets are patch-worked with blue-and-white Israeli flags snapping defiantly in the desert wind. Should Begin or another Premier eventually agree to return Sinai to Egypt, the settlers intend to try by court action to hold the government to a 1971 promise to keep the settlements under Israeli control. But most of the residents would leave if the Egyptians returned. Says Carol Rosenblatt, a 36-year-old mother of three from Miami Beach whose thatch-roofed restaurant is a local gathering place: "I brought my kids...
...Premier Giulio Andreotti, who then headed a center-right coalition made up of his Christian Democrats and the conservative Liberal Party, lost 13 consecutive parliamentary votes before calling it quits. This time Andreotti's 18-month-old government did not so much fall as dissolve. To avoid a showdown vote that would have poisoned the atmosphere and left the parties in a state of political war, he bowed out quietly, imploring his party to exercise "general prudence...
Even as Italy's government was falling, Portugal was getting a new one, thus ending a 41-day political crisis that began when Premier Mário Soares' minority Socialist government lost a vote of confidence. President António Ramalho Eanes had asked Soares to try again. After failing to work out accords with the right-of-center Social Democrats and the Communists, Soares last week succeeded in forming an alliance with the conservative Center Social Democrats (C.D.S.). The Socialists' 102 votes in the 263-seat legislature together with the 41 votes of the C.D.S. will...
...answers are reassuring, but the emphatic reply comes on court. Last year Cornblit was the overall winner at Miami's World Jai-Alai, the premier palace of the game. In the second month of a season against 46 of the top professional players in the world, Joey again leads in overall wins (32) and front-court doubles championships (8) and has a shot at the singles title as well. No player has ever won the triple crown of jai-alai in Miami, but observers-and rabid bettors-believe Joey has a chance. Says Betting Clerk Emilio Posada: "There...
...neither can they appreciate the fine line between mechanical proficiency and boredom, the main fare of recent Super Bowls. While this year's contest between Denver and Dallas had its moments of suspense, perhaps the most exciting event of the evening-and arguably the Super Bowl's premier athletic feat-was a 60-yd. bomb thrown by 13-year-old Alfonzo Walls Jr. in the Punt, Pass and Kick finals before the game. Walls was on target too, a boon Craig Morton sorely lacked...