Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LONDON--Premier Nikita Khrushchev returned to Moscow today from a visit to Hungary, a tour of the Ukraine and a week-long visit in Kiev, Moscow radio said Sunday...
...inauspicious as he stepped lightly down the ramp to begin his historic 19-day tour of eleven nations. But with his evident ease and friendship, he carried his own omens. He doffed his hat in the rain as he shook hands with Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Premier Antonio Segni, doffed it again as a band played short versions of the U.S.'s Star-Spangled Banner and Italy's Inno di Mameli...
Vote of Confidence. Just three weeks ago, Prime Minister Nehru stunningly and surprisingly emerged from the cocoon of indecision. With brusque firmness, he sent a note to Peking rejecting Premier Chou En-lai's proposal that both the Indian and Chinese border forces withdraw 12½ miles from their present positions. Nehru's counterproposals were for a "no man's land" in the disputed areas, which would result in getting almost all Chinese troops out of Indian territory. Nehru added sharply that "the cause of the recent troubles is action taken from your side of the border...
Actually Burma's pols have been electioneering ever since last May, when moonfaced ex-premier U Nu lashed out at army rule (TIME, June 1). U Nu mixes religious meditation and campaign oratory as no one else does: fortnight ago, emerging from 45 days of fasting and contemplation, he coincidentally had a new batch of speeches ready, mixing pleas for devotion with appeals for votes. He stumped hard for his "clean" faction of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, which ruled Burma for eleven years. His chief opponents: party dissidents who call themselves the league...
Today, the 2,500,000 Chinese who make up 3% of Indonesia's population are a prosperous minority, irksome to Indonesia's nationalists and as politically aloof as ever. In the euphoric aftermath of the 1955 Bandung Conference, Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai negotiated with Indonesia a curious treaty giving the Chinese settlers the option of either citizenship; but, in fact, nearly 75% retain Red China passports. Last year President Sukarno closed down Nationalist Chinese schools and shops-to Peking's delight. But last May, Sukarno made it plain that all Chinese were eventually...