Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative opposition put no fewer than three major candidates on the road. Jacques Chirac, the former Premier and current mayor of Paris, stomped through farming country near Limoges and demanded new agricultural policies. Raymond Barre, another onetime Premier, was in Paris advocating the deregulation of French industries. And Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former President, was urging unity among conservatives in the Pas de Calais area of the northwest...
...Cabinets between 1946 and 1958. Now, however, the stability of the Fifth Republic may be ending. Mitterrand, whose term as President runs until 1988, faces the very real prospect of having to deal with a legislature controlled by the opposition. The upshot could be a leftist President, a rightist Premier--and general political turmoil...
...alleged alcoholism, retired from the Politburo last July. One day later Andrei Gromyko, who had served as Foreign Minister since 1957, was promoted to the honorific post of President. Last month Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who had commanded the Soviet navy since 1956, was replaced. Nikolai Tikhonov, who had been Premier since 1980 and was closely tied to the Brezhnev era, stepped down in September on a common Soviet pretext: poor health...
...changes Gorbachev has already imposed would have been unthinkable just a year ago. Three members of the party's eleven-man top decision-making body, the Politburo, have been removed since he succeeded Konstantin Chernenko. In their places are younger men who conform to Gorbachev's vision. A new Premier has been installed, and 21 government ministries have new bosses. At lower levels of the party, new chiefs have taken over 30% of the 147 regional organizations. Approximately 35% of the 319 party Central Committee members elected at the last congress, in 1981, have retired, died or been removed...
...Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, cut his teeth in the Siberian town of Sverdlovsk and gained a reputation as a forceful administrator. Boris Yeltsin, 55, who replaced Grishin as Moscow party boss, also came from Siberia. When Yeltsin heard grumbling about poor bus service in the capital, he reportedly rode the overcrowded vehicles himself, then ordered the head of the city transport department to do the same...