Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kassem's tussle with domestic Arab nationalists who favor one big Arab nation, he had won the first round. But so had his Communist allies. The sole political party left in Premier Kassem's Cabinet is now the Communist-backed National Democrats. The leading pro-Communist among the Iraqi Cabinet ministers announced that he was off this week for Moscow to work out details of the new economic deal, which would put Western oil royalties to work on a development program in which Communist advisers will have the most...
...several recent incidents: a religious murder in Sidon. a lynching in Tripoli. "The time has come for the erection of gallows,'' said Interior Minister Raymond Edde, introducing a bill making capital punishment mandatory for "premeditated murder.'' Last week, made an issue of confidence by Premier Rashid Karami, the bill was passed, 28-3. No longer may a murderer plead as a mitigating circumstance the defense honored in Lebanon for centuries: a blood feud...
...nations could set up diplomatic relations. Rhee was adamant. He refused to modify his seven-year-old ban on Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coast. He refused to take Japan's Koreans back into South Korea. Getting nowhere with Rhee, both Fujiyama and Premier Nobusuke Kishi reckoned that any move to get rid of Japan's "Korean residents'" would be popular with Japanese voters...
Somewhat sooner than expected, Fidel Castro last week took over direct control of the Cuban government. Premier Jose Miro Cardona resigned, along with his Cabinet. Assuming the premiership. Castro quit as commander of the armed forces, giving that job to his ice-eyed brother Raul...
...Divided. There was an inevitability about last week's changes, but their suddenness was caused by a moral crisis. The government was at loggerheads over Cuba's tourist-trapping casinos, closed since the fall of Batista. At first Fidel Castro opposed gambling on principle. Provisional President Urrutia, Premier Miro Cardona and the Cabinet backed him up. But Castro's stand on principle dissolved in the face of the rapidly falling foreign exchange (it is now possible to fire a .45 down any hall of the Havana Hilton without hitting even a mouse) and of the jobless...