Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerusalem, baleful questions surrounded the precarious state of the health of Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Begin, 65, who has a long history of heart trouble, was in Hadassah Hospital suffering from what was officially described as a blood clot in a small artery of his brain. It had cost him possibly the permanent loss of 25% of his vision. Doctors and aides alike insisted that the affliction was under control, with the help of anticoagulant drugs, and that Begin's mental processes remained unimpaired. They said that he was cheerfully reading and continuing to conduct government business from...
...Premier's aides did not attempt to mask their concern that his condition could worsen and conceivably even force his resignation. In a swirl of rumors, Israelis asked themselves if his health might not already be perhaps more impaired than his doctors would admit...
Nevertheless, security is the Premier's main concern, as he explained last week in an interview with TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief Marsh Clark and correspondent David DeVoss: "Close to our borders there is a full-scale war. We have Communist subversion within the country. Added to that there is the refugee problem that undermines our stability. We need arms to preserve peace. Tell the U.S. Congress to come to Thailand to see the situation. Giving us a foreign military sales credit of $24 million is not enough. Thailand faces a war situation. It deserves a higher...
...traditionalist Portugal, voters and politicians alike could not help being tantalized by the choice of Pintassilgo as the stopgap Premier charged with forming an interim government to prepare for early elections this fall. The country has been without a government since early June when a reformist Cabinet of political independents headed by Carlos Alberto Mota Pinto resigned under Socialist and Communist censure motions. An independent herself, Pintassilgo has been described as both a "Catholic militant" and a "pure social democrat." As Minister of Social Affairs in the first provisional government following the army-inspired Flower Revolution...
...European Parliament chose as its first President the elegant and brainy Simone Veil, 52, a former French Health Minister, a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and one of the Continent's hottest political properties. In Lisbon, President António Ramalho Eanes abruptly chose as interim Premier Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo, 49, a chemical engineer and women's rights advocate now serving as Portugal's delegate to UNESCO in Paris...