Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this expectation, the U.S.S.R. was already busily constructing prepared bargaining positions. Last week, as Communist East Germany celebrated its tenth anniversary-and cockily plastered West Berlin elevated railway stations with the new East German hammer-and-compass flag-Russia's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov was on hand to announce that Moscow would demand that the East Germans be seated at any summit meeting dealing with Germany. And in the U.N., the Russians were busily beating the drum for the "general disarmament plan" unveiled by Khrushchev last month. Last week, after maneuvering the General Assembly into agreeing...
Only a few weeks before, Iraq's Premier Abdel Karim Kassem had been the nation's idol, but now the mention of his name drew sneers as well as applause from Baghdad crowds. As his tan Chevrolet station wagon rolled past the coffee shops on teeming Rashid Street, some coffee drinkers propped their legs on the café tables to show Kassem the soles of their feet-an Arab gesture of contempt. Demonstrators protesting last month's execution of 13 popular Iraqi army officers (TIME, Sept. 28) even dared to chant: "Allah is great, Kassem is crazy...
...deafening clatter. A youth broke out of the startled crowd to hurl himself in front of Kassem as a shield, and a taxi driver rammed his cab between Kassem's station wagon and the gunmen. But it was too late; Kassem's driver lay dead, and the Premier himself was reeling and bloodied, his hand ripped by one submachine gun slug, his arm shattered by two more. He had escaped death by inches...
...limousines rolled up, one after another, the honor guard posted before Washington's vast, columned Interdepartmental Auditorium repeatedly sprang to attention. Inside the hushed hall a loudspeaker announced each arrival: Premier Manouchehr Eghbal of Iran, Premier Adnan Menderes of Turkey, Foreign Minister Manzur Qadir of Pakistan, British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia. With all due pomp, the U.S. last week was playing host to the semiannual Ministerial Council of CENTO, the Baghdad-less Baghdad Pact...
...Karachi, Ne Win was able to fill Nehru in on some of the latest developments within the widening circle of the disenchanted: the U.A.R.'s Nasser was furious over Communist China's support of the Syrian Communist Party and its vocal admiration for Iraq's Premier Kassem; Pakistan was fuming over a set of Chinese maps showing some 6,000 square miles of Pakistani territory as part of China. As for Burma, only three years ago Peking had piously assured the Burmese government that there would never be any question about the Burma-China border. But Chinese...