Word: premier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BUDAPEST, Hungary--Janos Kadar, the hard-line leader of Hungary's Communist Party since 1956, was removed from his post yesterday and succeeded by reform-minded Premier Karoly Grosz...
...year-old premier becomes party leader with a revamped Politburo trimmed of aging apparatchiks. Imre Pozsgay, a leading advocate of reform, and Reszo Nyers, the father of Hungary's economic restructuring in the 1960s who was dropped from the Politburo in 1972, were appointed to the ruling body...
...would have handed over his sword and scabbard on the field of battle. In France last week, the vanquished paid homage to the victor during a tense nine-minute ceremony in a brocaded Louis XV-style study of the Elysee Palace, in which Jacques Chirac tendered his resignation as Premier to the adversary who had beaten him at the polls two days before: re-elected President Francois Mitterrand. Then Mitterrand got cracking. Over the next 48 hours he gave France a new Premier, moderate Socialist Michel Rocard; a new 26-member Cabinet that includes six non- Socialist independents...
...presidential election put the defeated conservatives in disarray. The center-right Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.), which supported former Premier Raymond Barre in the first round of voting in April, found itself torn by new rivalries for the leadership and cowed by the tacit threat of a parliamentary election. Consequently, the U.D.F. was wrangling over what position it should take toward the new government. Outgoing Culture Minister Francois Leotard flatly criticized it, though he refrained from recommending a censure vote. Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing spoke benignly of a "constructive opposition." Outgoing Transport Minister Pierre Mehaignerie and former European...
Acting at locations thousands of miles apart, the government of Premier Jacques Chirac had suddenly decided to free its citizens. Though Paris maintained that the timing was an accident, the twin rescues could hardly help but give a badly needed boost to Candidate Chirac's presidential campaign against Incumbent Francois Mitterrand...