Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli Premier who compromises on the settlements would have to resign . . . Israel's Arab neighbors are implacable enemies. Egypt is an implacable enemy." ?Israeli Premier Menachem Begin...
Beyond his anger at Israel's general approach to negotiations, Anwar Sadat is outraged by Premier Menachem Begin's determination to hold on to 16 Jewish settlements in northern Sinai. Last week TIME's Robert Slater visited the largest of these settlements, Yamit (Hebrew for "little sea"). His report...
...other settlements near by, was built as an Israeli buffer between the Sinai and the Gaza Strip. Before last week's breakdown in peace talks, Begin had hinted that the territory might be handed back to Cairo. The idea touched off debate and diatribes throughout Israel, and the Premier subsequently said that the settlements would remain under Israeli sovereignty even if the Sinai is returned to Egypt. Prior to that promise, the settlers in Yamit were in an angry mood. The town is the one with the greatest expectations for growth. It now has a population...
...photographs for TIME as they traveled, visited a silk weaving mill and a tea commune in Hangchow, a prison in Shanghai, and the Great Wall. In addition to seeing the sights, the Senator looked up relatives of some Massachusetts constituents and conferred with Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "I can't help being impressed by the motivation, the drive, the organization and the commitment of these people for modernization," says Kennedy. Caroline, a Radcliffe sophomore, and Michael, a Harvard sophomore, both plan to write term papers on their China jaunt...
...Spain moved into a more liberal era, Perez, under the pseudonym "Peridis," finally found his true calling: cartoonist. In Madrid's daily newspaper El Pais he regularly lampoons the pillars of the once untouchable Establishment-from King Carlos to Pope Paul. Some of Peridis' subjects-including both Premier Adolfo Suarez and Communist Party Chief Santiago Carillo-have even written prefaces to the cartoonist's new book, Peridis' Little Political Animals: The Year of the Transition. Why such support? "I don't put hate into my drawings," says Peridis. "Most of my political figures come...