Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist, the rest of Southeast Asia will go too) by slashing at each other's throats in border war instead of pursuing a common ideological expansion. The Shah of Iran's 37-year reign was shaken by week upon week of riots. In Italy, the Red Brigades kidnaped former Premier Aldo Moro, held him for 54 days, then shot him dead and left his body in the back of a car on a Rome street. In the Soviet Union, human rights campaigners Anatoli Shcharansky, Yuri Orlov and Alexander Ginzburg went into the Gulag...
...Chinese venture acquired a fascinating new dimension at year's end. The U.S. and the People's Republic ended seven years of gingerly courtship that began with the Nixon-Kissinger initiatives. In simultaneous communiques from Peking and Washington, Chairman and Premier Hua Kuo-feng and President Carter announced that the two countries would exchange ambassadors and begin normal diplomatic relations. The normalization opens potentially lucrative avenues of trade and new perspectives on world politics, even though it will be a long time before Peking joins Washington and Moscow as a capital of first-rank global power...
...motive force behind the campaign to get the world's oldest continuous civilization to the 21st century on schedule is not Mao's titular successor, Hua Kuo-feng, 57, but Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who also holds the titles of Vice Chairman of the Communist Party and Army Chief of Staff. Although he ranks only third in the Peking Politburo (after Hua and ailing Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, 80, the figurehead Chief of State), Teng is the principal architect of what has become known in Chinese rhetoric as the Four Modernizations?an attempt simultaneously to improve agriculture, industry...
...Eanes. Eanes had just dropped Socialist Party Chief Mario Scares from the premiership after his governing coalition with the conservative Center Democrats fell apart. Scares was incensed by his ouster and was particularly upset because Eanes had not consulted the political parties before choosing Nobre da Costa. The former Premier insisted Eanes' action was "unconstitutional" and an example of haughty "presidentialism...
Accordingly, the program that the Premier presented for treating Portugal's many ills was vague, perhaps deliberately so. Some disgruntled deputies derided it as a "letter of intent," and a "mere memorandum." Without mentioning specifics, the Mota Pinto program called for revising agricultural credit, promoting competition, creating jobs, and keeping up a permanent "dialogue with the workers." In his speech before the Assembly, Mota Pinto spoke forcefully in defense of his program. Said he: "We must put discipline in work, better the conditions for private investment and make the public sector efficient...