Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...praise from U.S. allies in Western Europe and put pressure on the Soviet Union to show similar flexibility. On a five-day visit to China, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger revealed that relations between Washington and Peking had unexpectedly improved to the point where summit meetings between Reagan and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang will be exchanged next year. To top everything off, Reagan persuaded Congress to pass a war-powers resolution ratifying the continued deployment of U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months (see WORLD...
...German Army would "march" unless Prague yielded to all his demands, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain adr dressed the Empire and the U. S. by radio, declared Führer Hitler's demands "unreasonable." The next day, at a time of even greater tension he appealed to the Italian Premier Benito Mussolini to use his good offices with the Führer...
...first day of battle in response to a plea from Nasser, Jordan opened a second front. Mortar and artillery shells rumbled down from the heights of Arab Jerusalem to splatter the Israeli sector. No part of the city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol's home and in the garden of The King David Hotel...
...Communism's 37 years in power in Russia, leaders have fallen from power in dramatically diverse ways. Some cringingly confessed to being jackals, venal hirelings in the pay of the capitalist enemy. Some went silently to the cellar. Some, like Molotov in his days as premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. But nobody before had ever fallen as Georgy Malenkov, once the presumed heir to Stalin's dictatorship, fell last week...
...while his startling admission of incompetency was read out: "I . . . request to be relieved." There was a reason for Malenkov's whimper: the regime could not afford a bang. So came his odd confession and the clumsy charade that followed: 1,300 hands raised unquestioningly to accept their premier's resignation...