Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the post of President is largely ceremonial, Gomulka needs a loyal supporter there. By putting in Spychalski, he also managed to thwart those who would have liked to see Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, 56, another Gomulka backer, shifted to the ceremonial post, where his moderating influence on the government would be neutralized. Into Spychalski's place as Defense Minister, Gomulka managed to put another supporter. He was Wojciech Jaruzelski, 44, the Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff. Aware of the factional struggle, Jaruzelski immediately appointed three new vice ministers to offset the anti-Gomulka cast...
...uncertain terms, Dubček's program plots a return to the economic reforms designed by Economist Ota Šik, who has been nominated for one of five Deputy Premier posts in the new government. Slowed down under the regime of ex-Party Boss Antonín Novotný, the reforms place faith in market determination of prices, competition among enterprises, more incentives for workers and less bureaucratic control. The program proclaims that inefficient workers and factories will not be rewarded and that the consumer must be protected against high prices and inferior goods caused by "the monopoly position...
...years. The Shah himself broke ground for the plant last month, and the declared purpose of Kosygin's trip was to pay a visit to its site. Obviously, there was not a great deal to see yet, but the aborning mill was a convenient excuse for the Soviet Premier to negotiate in person for even bigger deals...
Trudeau's program will not depart dramatically from Pearson's policies. His toughest problem is Canada's constitutional crisis. Though Trudeau is a French Canadian and personally popular in Quebec, he is ideologically at odds with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson and other Quebecois who want a quasi-independent status for the French-speaking province. Trudeau strongly opposes French separatism and argues persuasively for a genuinely federal system. As he sees it, Quebec should surrender its demands for special status, and English Canada should give up its vision of Canada as an essentially English-dominated country. Trudeau also...
While it did very well in its most recent military endeavors, Israel needs economic help. Last week more than 450 leading financiers, manufacturers and economists from 29 countries jetted to Jerusalem for talks on building up Israel's private sector. When the four-day conference ended, Premier Levi Eshkol could declare without over statement that it had "surpassed our most optimistic expectations...