Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo, only two, Premier Chou En-lai and Defense Minister Lin Piao, survive...
Among the French, joy was unalloyed?except by smugness. "Was it ever in doubt?" murmured Premier Georges Pompidou during a visit to Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable...
Acquaintances of Bo from his years in the South remember him as "articulate and able." South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Van Loc is an old friend, and Bo once wrote a tune that now is the national an them of South Viet Nam. He has not been a designer but an executor of his government's policies. Nonetheless, his familiarity with the West should make him a valuable adviser to a delegation with little knowledge of the non-Communist world...
...hand, the Soviet Union was pressuring him to slow down his reforms; Pravda spoke ominously of "subversive activities, antipopular forces, anti-Communist hysteria and anarchy" in Czechoslovakia. To soothe the Russians, Dubček, accompanied by Premier Oldrich Cernik, flew to Moscow for talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Even as they went, however, increasingly vocal liberals in Czechoslovakia were demanding nothing less than full democracy...
...lack of a record promises to be no hindrance, since Trudeau will be going up against another relatively un tested politician: Tory Leader Robert Stanfield, 54, the onetime Premier of Nova Scotia who succeeded former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as party leader last September. Stanfield is cautious and reserved, but a proven vote getter and administrator who served an unprecedented four terms as Nova Scotia's Premier. In the few months since he assumed the Tory leadership, he has restructured and strengthened the party organization in Ottawa and the country's 264 election districts. Still, most Canadians feel...