Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sick and weary of bloodshed and violence," said U Nu, the gentle but by no means simple Premier of Burma for the past eleven years, as he too last week finally resigned office in favor of a general with emergency powers. Calling on Parliament to give full support to General Ne Win, U Nu warned that failure "would probably mean the death of democracy and a return to the days when naked force represented the only means of winning political power." Then U Nu handed over to newspaper editors two trunks containing his personal effects, and poured an oblation...
...riots exploded when the government moved against the chauvinistic League of Ivory Coast Nationals, arrested 25 of its rabble-rousing leaders. As uprooted Dahomeyans and Togolanders, many of whom have lived on the Ivory Coast for years, huddled in makeshift shelters, Premier Auguste Denise lamented "the inhuman, painful spectacle of men, women and babies piled one on the other in the sun and the rain, running daily the risk of epidemics...
From the start there was a clash between the personalities of the Premiers of the three regions-each obviously more important than the scholarly Federal Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. In Western eyes, Obafemi Awolowo of the Western Region seemed the most statesmanlike: as the conference began, the London Times carried a full-page ad proclaiming his declaration for freedom under the title "This I Believe," prepared with the help of an American public relations man. In contrast, U.S.-educated Premier Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe of the Eastern Region seemed to have learned more in the U.S. about Tammany tactics...
...Turkey's top newsmen, a stay at the "Ankara Hilton" has become a matter of personal and professional pride. Reason: the wryly nicknamed "Ankara Hilton" is the special bullpen in Ankara's Central Prison for newsmen who have dared to criticize the government of Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes...
...relations between government and press were good. Shortly after the 1954 elections the opposition press became bitingly critical, and the administration began to strike back. Sweeping Menderes-backed laws can check a newsman into the "Ankara Hilton" for any story that lessens the public's regard for the Premier or his administration...