Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hsien-nien, 69, senior Vice Premier and, until his promotion last year, China's Finance Minister. Li remains the country's chief economic planner. Some China watchers anticipated that Li would be named Premier, but Hua, at least for now, holds that job as well as the party chairmanship...
...lien, 63, Vice Premier and commander of the Peking Military Region. Once a peasant guerrilla fighter, Ch'en rose through the ranks of the Red Army. His support was probably essential in Hua's lightning coup against the radicals...
...purge was the No. 2 man in the Politburo. More significant politically was an antiradical wall poster in Shanghai that showed four mice standing outside a hole shouting: "You can come out now! Neither black nor white cats are around." Explanation: the radicals had attacked discredited former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the onetime favorite to succeed Chou En-lai as Premier, for erroneously arguing that "it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white so long as it can catch mice." Teng's sin was suggesting that the color of the cat (meaning...
...military post. Both men belong to the same generation of Israelis who grew up with the Jewish state's struggle for survival-and yet, even though they are members of the same Cabinet, they are locked in a constant, fratricidal battle. In fact, the rivalry between Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 54, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 53, has become so intense that practically every issue in Israel's hothouse politics polarizes into a struggle between their competing factions. Israel's national elections are still one year away, but Peres has clearly emerged as the major threat to Rabin...
...have clashed almost continuously since April 1974, when the ruling Labor Party's central committee, by a 298-to-254 vote, chose Rabin over Peres as its candidate to succeed Golda Meir as Premier. The latest flare-up involves Asher Yadlin, whom Rabin recently picked to be governor of the Bank of Israel, the country's No. 2 financial post. A gambling buff (he favors the Las Vegas roulette table) with an eye for pretty women, Yadlin is also a major fund raiser for the Labor Party; since 1973, he has headed Israel's huge Kupat Holim...