Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notable victory for law-and-order and a stunning defeat for the Communists. Eanes, the tough, austere army chief of staff who put down a leftist military uprising last November, won 61.5% of the vote, trouncing far-left candidate Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (16.5%), seriously ailing Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo (14.4%) and the Communist standard-bearer Octavio Pato (7.6%). Although Eanes' victory was less a personal triumph than a vote of confidence in the three non-Communist parties that backed him-the Socialists, Popular Democrats and conservative Center Social Democrats-the general is expected to wield...
...Syrian troops to keep peace between other Syrian troops and the leftist Palestinians seemed a shaky solution, but the limited cease-fire remained intact at week's end. It did not, however, bring any real peace to Lebanon because the agreement, negotiated by Libyan Premier Abdul Salam Jalloud, did not extend to the country's warring leftist Moslem and rightist Christian forces. On the day the Jalloud agreement was announced last week, rightist forces launched a savage attack on two Palestinian camps in the predominantly Christian eastern section of Beirut. More than 150 were killed and well over...
...possible sign of new authoritarianism in Germany. The uproar further betrays a European envy of Germany's healthy economy and stable politics and an annoyance with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's penchant for lecturing other countries about their internal problems. Observed Luxembourg's liberal Premier Gaston Thorn: "One looks at West Germany, and one recalls that this was the country that started two world wars, lost both, and is now 'No. 1' in Western Europe; this can be very hard for some to take...
...interests) on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, where Dick O'Connell, the general manager of the Boston Red Sox, got a message to telephone Charlie Finley, the exasperated (and exasperating) owner of the Oakland Athletics. For days Finley had been trying to trade or sell seven premier players of the A's who had refused to sign contracts; now he hoped to arrange a package deal that O'Connell could not decline. The spring trading deadline of midnight Tuesday, June 15, was only hours away and properties worth millions of dollars would soon be worth...
...Olympic facilities originally were expected to cost Montrealers $310 million; the last anyone counted, the price tag was up to $1.5 billion. An investigation has already been threatened by Quebec's Premier Robert Bourassa to find out the causes of the bloated bill after the Games are over. Figuring out how to pay all those unexpected chits has been deferred until after the flags come down...