Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attention to domestic problems that forged Ohira's upset victory. Until this year the L.D.P., which has held control of Japan's parliamentary government since it was formed in 1955, always picked its leader, who automatically becomes Premier, in a caucus of L.D.P. members in the Diet. In a party composed of strong and combative factions, this led to open vote buying, bribery and scandal. With former Premier Kakuei Tanaka now on trial in the Lockheed influence-peddling scandal, the L.D.P. decided to try to clean up its image as a party of feuding bosses and "black mist...
...chance to drive for the party leadership, but on each occasion the reluctant bull backed away. The last time, in 1975, he and Fukuda, his opponent, reportedly made an oral agreement that Ohira would withdraw and support Fukuda and that Fukuda in turn would step aside as Premier and party leader at the end of his term, in Ohira's favor. Fukuda apparently reneged on the deal, and that may be what finally moved Ohira to put up a real fight for the leadership...
Shortly after he was elected to head Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, Masayoshi Ohira met with TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Ed Reingold and Correspondent Frank Iwama at party headquarters to discuss some of the challenges he will face as Premier...
...notable as Chernenko's rise was the political eclipse of Kiril Mazurov, 64, a Politburo member and First Deputy Premier since 1965. He was ousted from both jobs last week "for reasons of health and at his own request." Mazurov's backer was Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 74, who is not in the best of health, and whose influence has long been on the decline...
...Burgundian city of Beaune. Technically, it is a charity sale: for the past 127 years, the auction has been the principal source of support for the Hospices de Beaune, a hospital that has been in continuous operation since 1443. In practice, the sale of wine from its Premier and Grand Cru vineyards is a closely watched price barometer for all Burgundies. At this year's auction, in a hall bedecked with medieval tapestries, the needle shifted to "stormy" as 362 pièces (a pièce is the equivalent of 25 cases of twelve bottles each...