Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Recent assaults have been particularly vicious; in fact, the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine described last week's attempted attack on the kibbutz as a "suicide mission." As a result, the Israelis have apparently adopted a policy of pre-emptive strikes and hot pursuit. As Premier Menachem Begin told the Knesset, "We shall attack these murderers at every opportunity. We shall give them no rest...
Nothing so infuriates Italy's terrorists as the spectacle of the democratic process at work. Just as the campaign for the country's early June parliamentary elections was beginning, the ruthless Red Brigades staged their most spectacular urban guerrilla attack since their abduction and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring. Striking in the heart of Rome, a band of as many as 20 brigatisti swarmed into the district headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party not far from such tourist attractions as Piazza Navona and Via Condotti...
...Washington week in which all kidding was not aside. While President Jimmy Carter was welcoming Japanese Premier Masayoshi Ohira to the White House, for instance, little maids from various schools, including First Daughter Amy, mounted excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, with its lighthearted attacks on both monarchy and things Japanese. Others in a cast of tens were Emily Powell, daughter of the President's press secretary, Senate siblings, ambassadorial ingenues, and Alice Jay, whose grandfather, James Callaghan, was in the process of losing his prime ministership at show time. Their ensemble was joined by another...
Nowhere in the Western world is the tension between decentralized economic pursuits and the advantages of a strong federal government as evident as in Canada. Oil-rich Alberta, led by Conservative premier Peter Lougheed, is in the midst of a boom. The other Western provinces feel alienated by the distant Ottawa government. The Maritime provinces are locked into a vicious economic cycle, with unemployment as high as 20 per cent in some areas, and despite federal investment incentives, practically separatist government clamors for "sovereignty association," a euphemism for secession. If Quebec were to secede, the Maritimes would...
Quebec's chain-smoking premier, Rene Levesque, gained power in the late 1976, by deposing an anemic Liberal government with a stunning triumph. Levesque's separatist doctrine is the party's raison d'etre. He originally drafted the policy in his book, An Option for Quebec, soon after he left the Quebec Liberal Party in 1967. Only Trudeau's popularity in Quebec exceeds that of Levesque's. The Quebec leader has wisely chosen to keep a low profile during this federal campaign, secretly hoping for Trudeau's demise, while recognizing that support for Clark would label him a traiter...