Word: premier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That de Klerk is attacking right-wing intolerance is heartening. But de Klerk, like Gorbachev in Europe, has also unleashed strong political forces that threaten to carry him away. Unlike the Soviet premier, however, de Klerk is offering only superficial changes, not legitimate reforms. Unless he is willing to offer Blacks an equal political role, he may discover that his policies of "balance" have expiration dates...
...Deputy Premier Jaromir Zak said on state-run TV that after long discussion, it was decided to drop the article enshrining the leading role of the Communists in the constitution from a new draft of the document...
Vaclav Klaus, a spokeman for the opposition group Civic Forum, called off any rallies today, when the opposition meets the government for more negotiations. Communist Premier Ladislav Adamec held an unprecedented meeting last Sunday with opposition leaders to try to contain the peaceful revolt...
...Premier Ladislav Adamec became the first top official in 20 years to share a platform with Dubcek, the former Communist Party leader who spent two decades in political exile after Warsaw Pact tanks crushed his "Prague Spring" reform movement...
Urbanek also asked the Czechoslovak premier and the premier of the Czech republic to submit proposals on changing the functions of their interior ministries--which are responsible for the police--in the wake of police brutality against peaceful Prague demonstrators November 17 that touched off the past nine days of mammoth anti-government rallies...