Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canadian relations and left much of the remaining world bothered about what a West German newspaper called "a dangerous and discouraging precedent." Even many Canadians were unhappy with their Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, over his government's ham-fisted attempt to tamper with the world's premier sports event...
...negotiations bogged down, sentiment for the commando rescue mounted in the Israeli Cabinet. Finally Premier Yitzhak Rabin acquiesced-but only after the men from Mossad had assured him that the skyjackers had not planted dynamite around the Airbus and the terminal's lounge, where the hostages were being held. Rabin warned, however, that if the raid failed, "it might cause the collapse of this Cabinet...
...proved the watershed year because Arnold Palmer, then the premier trendsetter in golf, turned the trick at Royal Birkdale for his first British Open...
...Ford, who is at his best in small groups, enhanced his status as a world statesman last week by playing the charming and well-briefed host to British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Italy's lame-duck Premier Aldo Moro, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki and Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
...Italian Premier Moro and British Prime Minister Callaghan listened attentively-but both face such sensitive political pressures at home they are not free to put the Puerto Rican summit advice into practice. Any Christian Democrat who forms a post-election Italian government will have to gain the support of the Communists for an effective economic stabilization plan. The result might be unacceptable to Western financial experts, and their refusal could push Italy farther down the path toward financial ruin-and hasten the time when the Italian Communists do come to power...