Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could provide the Shah with a chance to isolate the extremists. That would allow him to pursue his plan to hold free parliamentary elections next year. So far, however, the otherwise efficient Iranian regime has not been able to take advantage of its opportunities. The Shah's forward-looking Premier, Jamshid Amouzegar, had better luck coping with the problems of industrialization than negotiating with Shi'ite mullahs. Unable to bridge the gap between mullahs and modernists, the otherwise able Amouzegar resigned early this week, and the Shah quickly replaced him with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, chairman of the Iranian Senate...
...into hostilities with another former friend, the People's Republic of China. The pro-American trend in Hanoi is all the more notable given the starchy posture of the victorious Vietnamese regime following the fall of Saigon in April 1975. For more than three years the government, headed by Premier Pham Van Dong, 72, insisted that the U.S. pay $3.25 billion in "war reparations" as an absolute precondition to any normal diplomatic relationship. Although Hanoi has yet to say so officially, that galling proviso has now been withdrawn...
There was no sign that Begin had any important new ideas to offer or concessions to make, even though he had a great deal riding on that meeting. Until then, his critics-the Israelis who regard their Premier as an obstacle to peace-will presumably sit on their hands and hope he will prove them wrong. But if the summit fails disastrously, his own aides admit, a disenchantment with Begin's leadership could quickly...
Ever since the brazen daylight kidnaping and subsequent assassination of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring, Italian investigators have been intrigued by indications that there may have been a West German connection to the crime. Some eyewitnesses reported that they thought they heard German spoken at the scene of the abduction. Police also noted that the manner in which the kidnaping was staged and the precision execution of Moro's five bodyguards were curiously similar in style to the kidnaping six months earlier of German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne...
Raymond Barre, France's Premier, reflecting on his countrymen: "They are often irritating and even exasperating, but without the French there would be no Europe. What is most striking is that the French have a vision, a certain idea about Europe...