Word: premier
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...majority of Japanese, though, joined Premier Takeo Miki in offering gokurosama (special thanks) to the shy, scholarly Emperor for his long reign. In Tokyo, Hirohito responded by recalling the pleasant and sad memories of 50 years, mentioning especially his grief for "the great number of victims of the last war and their families...
...issue is the decision of Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer to assure survival of Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic government by a sophisticated tactic of "non-opposition" in the Chamber of Deputies. Berlinguer has had the P.C.I. Deputies (227 of 630) and Senators (116 of 315) abstain on key votes, thus lending implicit Communist support to unpopular government programs, including the stangata (sting)-the tough austerity measures that, among other things, have hiked the price of gasoline by 25% (bringing it to $2.25 a gal. for super) and increased postal, electric and telephone rates. Communist leaders argue that...
Died. Emiliano Augusto di Cavalcanti, 79, Brazil's premier painter; following surgery; in Rio de Janeiro. Cavalcanti (known simply as "Di") rejected the military career planned for him in favor of a bohemian life. During the 1920s and '30s, he worked in Paris along with Picasso, Braque and Matisse, then returned to Brazil to paint bright, bold, cubist landscapes and sensuous mulatto women whose skin, he said, "is silk and reflects...
...answer, one of the Premier's aides argues that "Peres wages psychological warfare." The personable, quick-witted Minister of Defense is a much finer speaker than Rabin, handles the press well and thus frequently outshines the dour Premier in public. Peres' supporters, moreover, have tried to malign Rabin by spreading rumors that he cracks under pressure, drinks too much, has crude manners and exercises little leadership. They have even whispered that Rabin waffled before authorizing the commando rescue at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. All this, of course, is proof to Rabin's backers that Peres...
Peres has not said openly that he is in the running for Rabin's job. One reason: the Premier has warned that any Cabinet member, "including the Defense Minister," would have to resign from the government once he became a candidate for Premier. Peres, however, will have to start lining up support fairly soon; the party central committee gathers in the spring to nominate Labor's next standardbearer. By then, Rabin may well find himself on the defensive, blamed not only for Israel's 35% inflation and the mushrooming Yadlin scan dal but also for failing...