Word: premier
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...meeting was all the more remarkable because the Communist Party is still officially illegal in Spain, although the government of Premier Adolfo Suárez, in its efforts to broaden political participation, now generally looks the other way when it comes to the Communists' political activities. The government even permitted the party chiefs to hold a two-hour press conference. It also provided heavy security for the visitors. Carrillo himself, undoubtedly mindful of the right-wing assassination of five Communist labor lawyers six weeks ago, escorted his guests from the airport to their hotel in a bulletproof 1948 Cadillac...
...least. The Italians defend free expression but draw the line at anti-Soviet hostility. The party still has a large constituency of working-class oldtimers who not only look to Moscow as their ideological mecca but who have grown restive about Berlinguer's tacit support for Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christian Democratic minority government. When Carrillo recently declared that repression of dissidents showed that the "Soviet Union is not really a popular democracy but a dictatorship of a small layer of the country over the rest of the society," Berlinguer scolded him on Italian television, saying: "That...
...voice in the investment policies of their companies. In neighboring Belgium, which just had its first rail strike in 17 years, a series of five 24-hour walkouts is scheduled to dramatize labor objections to rising sales taxes. In Italy, unions are threatening to block any further progress on Premier Giulio Andreotti's austerity plan. Even in West Germany, normally a bastion of labor harmony, Trade Union Chief Heinz Oskar Vetter warned that "the honeymoon is over" with the government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...Often mentioned as a candidate to become the first woman Supreme Court Justice, Kay believes that law school should turn out students who are "able to separate the relevant from the irrelevant and focus on the core of a problem." In her office hangs a portrait of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir with the caption, "But can she type...
...market. Given the fondness of money managers for IBM, some analysts wonder whether the $280 offer will actually persuade many institutions to sell. Still, the offer strikes a balance. It allows the faithful to stay committed to IBM. And it permits skeptics who wonder whether the company's premier growth days are over to trim holdings quietly without sending tremors through Wall Street...