Word: premier
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Slowly but inexorably, the old order seems to be giving way under Juan Carlos. Last week the 565-member Cortes (Parliament) embarked on the first genuine post-Franco reform by voting to lift a ban on political meetings. The government of aging (67) Premier Carlos Arias Navarro also acknowledged that negotiations were under way for Juan Carlos' father, Don Juan, to renounce his claim to the throne. The traditional Victory Day, May 30, which celebrates the defeat of the Republican side in the civil war, was discreetly renamed Armed Forces Day. In another token of change, portraits of Franco...
...Candidates for the Upper House will be put forward by an entrenched local power system that is the legacy of the Franco era: provincial authorities, government-sponsored labor unions and associations of businessmen. Forty will be members for life. The King will still have sole authority to choose a Premier, but his choice must come from three names submitted to him by the right-wing-dominated regency council, said Interior Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 53, who planned the constitutional changes...
...Arabs again rioted in West Bank cities, as well as in the old quarter of Jerusalem. Three Arabs were killed in clashes with Israeli troops-one of them a 16-year-old girl, whose funeral was attended by several West Bank mayors and other local dignitaries. In the aftermath, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government debated new tactics for dealing with the cancerous resistance that is an irksome security risk and, increasingly, besmirches Israel's image...
Judge W. Arthur Garrity, LL.D., author of Boston's school-desegregation plan. Your courage, firmness, dignity, wisdom and balance have provided a premier example of the teaching role of a Good Judge...
...party's shifting and sometimes unstable factional alliances have led to the revolving-door premierships that have long plagued the country. Moro has been Premier five times, Mariano Rumor five times, and current President Giovanni Leone twice...