Word: premieres
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Some of the country's premier runners may compete on the track if Boston is selected as the site of the 1986 National Sports Festival. The United States Olympic Committee is considering 12 cities, and they will make the final decision in the spring, a spokesman said...
Many of the first signs of a cultural crackdown were exquisitely subtle. Premier Zhao Ziyang quietly forsook his Western suits for Mao jackets. The Peking municipal government ordered its employees to shave off their mustaches. The capital's leading hairdressing salon announced that it would no longer give men permanents. Many of the first casualties were similarly obscure: a Peking shopworker who procured two illustrated sex manuals from a Hong Kong businessman and reproduced 7,000 lucrative photos of their choicest scenes; an enterprising commune in Fujian province that used its pooled resources to acquire twelve video recorders...
...pandas' best hope in the long run probably lies with the Wolong Research and Conservation Center, scheduled for completion this month. Designed jointly by William Conway, director of the Bronx Zoo, and Chinese colleagues, the sprawling mountainside complex will become the world's premier panda research facility, with laboratories, libraries and special breeding pens to help sustain the panda population. Says Schaller: "The Chinese will probably save the panda. They are determined to do it. But it has to be a long-term effort. You can never...
...much of Arafat's power was not military but political. As the premier spokesman on the highly charged issue of Palestine, Arafat had threatened, cajoled and argued his way into every council in the Arab world, most of the chancelleries of Western Europe, the United Nations and even the Vatican. While his troops fought a losing battle in Tripoli, Arafat still commanded the loyalty of some 110 P.L.O. representatives around the world,The organization's political wing, most experts agreed, will not go along with the moves of Syrian President Hafez Assad. That, paradoxically, could push moderates...
Some of the country's premier runners may compete on Harvard's new outdoor track if Boston is selected as the site of the 1986 National Sports Festival...