Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later in the debate when the Premier declared that he represented the State of Israel, Meir Peil interjected: "Oy!" Begin turned on him once more: "Oy and oy to this heckling. I understand it hurts you, but it will continue hurting you for many years." While several members shouted "Amen," Peil shot back: "I hope [he] will reach the age of 120 but not be the Premier for a long time." By session's end, Israeli television viewers might have been hoping for a peace plan for their Knesset...
...People's National Airline jet set down at Kingston's airport last week, Jamaica's top government officials were on hand to greet Chinese Vice Premier Keng Piao and his 27-member entourage. The visitor declared that "China and Jamaica both belong to the Third World." Later, at a luncheon given by Democratic Socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley, the handsome, white-haired Chinese leader delivered a now familiar blast at the Americans and the Russians: "The superpowers are racking their brains to divide and sabotage the Third World movement by despicable means, but the nonaligned countries...
Japan. In May the Carter Administration agreed to sell China infrared scanning devices for oil exploration. To pay for its expensive purchases of Western technology, China's economics czar, Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien, told a group of visiting British parliamentarians this month that Peking is considering the once heretical action of borrowing from foreign banks...
...Touring Shaba region with Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko, Huang declared that the Katangese invaders had been "Soviet-Cuban mercenaries." Since then Keng Piao has carried China's admonitory message to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as to the Caribbean. The indefatigable Vice Premier has scheduled visits for next autumn to Guinea and Ghana...
...slight downplaying of its avowed intention of "liberating" Taiwan by force if necessary -the main obstacle to normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations. Returning from a ten-day visit to China two weeks ago, New York Democratic Congressman Lester Wolff reported that China's top foreign policymaker, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, had told him that Peking was willing to negotiate its differences on Taiwan with the Nationalist Chinese government. Said Wolff: "There was none of the rhetoric we had heard before about the 'murderers on Taiwan.' Taiwan was mentioned in a much more conciliatory framework...