Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists are doing fine in Iraq -but they have not got it all yet. Controlling the press and the trade unions, muscling into the farm organizations, they try ceaselessly to put the heat on the regime's army strongman, Premier Karim Kassem. But the elusive Kassem sometimes gets away from them...
Pierre Mendes-France, former Premier of France.................................... LL.D...
...went round the world direly reporting that nothing less than freedom itself was at stake in Sicily. And as the time came for Sicilians to elect a new regional assembly, Christian Democratic orators by the Fiat-ful raced about the island tirelessly echoing the warning of Italy's Premier Antonio Segni: "We must be on our guard if we are not to awaken in the bear hug of Communism...
Cheap at the Price. The emergence of rumpled, chubby Silvio Milazzo, 56, as the voice of his island's traditional separatism had typically Sicilian origins. A Christian Democrat since early youth, Landowner Milazzo was a reliable party wheel horse up to the time ambitious former Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani (TIME, May 26, 1958 et seq.) began to slip his bright young men from Rome into Sicily's Christian Democratic organization. Last October, outraged by this infringement on Sicilian autonomy (and threat to Sicilian patronage), Milazzo bolted the party. He managed to get control of the regional assembly...
...Premier Kishi's decisive victory over the Socialists (see above) seemed like any other modern, democratic electoral competition. But there were reminders of a more ancient Japan. On election eve a Buddhist priest from Hiroshima, who disagreed with Kishi's foreign policy, used a 5-in. dagger to disembowel himself in ceremonial hara-kiri in front of the Premier's official residence. And there was also something decidedly un-Western about the election of all six candidates nominated by the Soka Gakkai sect...