Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British lease on 90% of the territory expires. Seven times they have emerged with vague statements that their discussions proved "useful and constructive." But with the eighth round of talks due to begin this week in Peking, Chinese officials mysteriously became quite forthcoming. In San Francisco last week, Premier Zhao Ziyang declared that "Hong Kong will remain unchanged for at least 50 years after 1997." In an interview in the authoritative Peking weekly magazine Outlook (circ. 300,000), a Chinese spokesman on Hong Kong, Ji Pengfei, outlined a remarkably specific blueprint for absorbing that tiny outpost of capital ism into...
...welcoming din. Before him on the White House lawn, a fife-and-drum corps stepped loudly and flawlessly through its paces. In the distance, a knot of pro-Taiwanese demonstrators chanted protests against his presence. Thus in noisy, if peculiarly democratic fashion did the U.S. capital greet Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. Zhao, the highest-ranking Peking official ever to visit the U.S.,* had come to shore up a wobbly relationship. Said Zhao at the White House ceremony: "I come as a friendly envoy of the Chinese people for the purpose of seeking increased mutual understanding...
...White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. They gathered last Tuesday in honor of China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, who governs more people than anyone else in this world...
...guest of honor at the lavish state dinner was Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. But when Burt Reynolds, 47, arrived at the White House arm in arm with his old flame Dinah Shore, 66, the Washington press corps quickly turned its attention from international to personal politics. "I wouldn't tell you if it was true," stonewalled Reynolds, as he tried to fend off a barrage of questions about his relationships with Shore and Actress Sally Field, 37, who also happened to be in town. Reynolds was eventually pulled to safety by Nancy Reagan, 62, who teasingly told...
...Ronald Reagan had a double meaning in his toast last week to China's visiting Premier Zhao Ziyang when he saw good fortune for both nations in the "Year of the Pig" just past. Redskins Quarterback Joe Theismann, a guest at the elegant dinner, read it right. Just to be certain nothing was lost, Reagan whispered to a friend on the dance floor, "There's a good omen in that for those Hogs...