Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOSCOW, May 11--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev says an East-West summit conference will be held even if there is no great progress in settling cold war issues at the Geneva foreign ministers' conference...
These days the most popular Arabian nights' entertainments are the televised trials staged in Baghdad by the Iraqi People's Court, under the presidency of Premier Karim Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Mahdawi. Premier Kassem himself is known to have turned on the television in the middle of a Cabinet session, listened to the colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed...
...wish to disclose something here. The Premier's parents were always trying to get him to marry, but his personality was so strong no one could bring pressure to bear on him. I was his relative and dared approach him. He would say: 'Fadhil, I have an objective.' I knew his objectives were connected with a great revolution. After the revolution his sincere friends hoped that he might get married. His answer was that there were objectives that remained to be achieved. The Premier eats little, sleeps little and works hard though he is ill sometimes...
...complaining: "When you are not here, we don't do anything." Last month, after his party dutifully won every one of the 100 seats in the Ivory Coast Assembly, Houphouet decided that his influence in Africa would be far greater if he were to quit Paris and become Premier of his country. Last week, as the crowds of Abidjan roared, "Vive! Vive! Vive!", the Assembly installed him in office. The new Premier announced that he would never allow an opposition party that wanted to cut loose from France, and that henceforth the glories of the French African Community would...
AMMAN, Jordan, May 10--The new premier of Jordan said today that this country will steer clear of military pacts with either East or West...