Word: premiered
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...smoother elections than many a more advanced nation. More than half the 109 Parliament seats went to the Nepali Congress Party. Communists got only a handful as did the party of Nepal's most colorful politician, anti-American K. I. Singh. Under Nepali Congress Party Leader (and prospective Premier) B. P. Koirala, Nepal will probably keep to the same course it pursued under King Mahendra, who ordered the elections (and will continue to reign as a constitutional monarch). Major difference is that now Nepal's rulers can be confident that they have public approval...
...headquarters and home-away-from-home of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the armed camp that is Baghdad's Defense Ministry was a faithful reflection of Iraq's mood and condition. Nine months after Kassem and a handful of co-conspirators toppled the government of hated Strongman Nuri asSaid, the land that some say was the Garden of Eden is a place of terror, plot and counterplot. Its prisons are jammed with an estimated 5,000 political prisoners and ex-officials, and its lampposts are periodically festooned with bodies. Kassem's Iraq is a place where once-eminent...
...into Baghdad at 4:30 a.m., seized the radio station, pulled all switches at the telephone exchange, and, lobbing a mortar shell through a back wall of the royal palace, mowed down the King and members of the royal household as they stumbled in confusion out the front door. Premier Nuri asSaid, cunning veteran of two generations of Arab politics and unflinching friend of the West escaped from his house disguised as a woman-only to be hunted to death and dragged dead through the streets the next day. At noon of the first day, Kassem joined Aref...
...because he wanted to get a closer look at the coffee plantations he owned in the area. The plane never reached its destination. Two days later a search party found its wreckage-and with it the body of the distinguished passenger: Barthélémy Boganda, 48, Premier of the Central African Republic...
Died. Barthélémy Boganda, 48, Premier of the Central African Republic; in a plane crash (see FOREIGN NEWS...