Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK, Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov offered what could well be the last chance for success in the negotiations over Euromissiles. "The Soviet Union," he said in a major state speech, "has stated readiness not to have in Europe a single missile and a single plane more than possessed today by NATO countries." This offer of parity with British and French nuclear forces would require a Soviet reduction of intermediate-range missiles and warheads--a condition Andropov vowed could and would be met. However, the central requirement of the offer, and the central U.S. prohibition in the talks at Geneva...
...seeks to eliminate in Kampuchea the last remnants of Chinese influence in the region. To counter the Soviet presence, China backs the Sihanouk-led coalition of rebels who oppose the puppet government of Heng Samrin that Viet Nam installed in Kampuchea in 1979. China's Vice Premier Wan Li expressed his support directly to Sihanouk in a meeting in Peking last week. The Chinese have given him $100,000, Sihanouk said, to be divided among the three factions of the coalition opposed to Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea...
...regime and the underground leaders of the banned Solidarity union. Last week former Union Leader Lech Walesa was detained for questioning by police for the third time in seven days. Yet after his release, Walesa went ahead with a planned press conference in which he reminded the government of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski that Solidarity supporters "remain and will remain a moral force without which Poland cannot overcome its crisis...
Simensksy said that each episode features as well-known Penn personality in a cameo appearance. In the premier, Penn President Sheldon Hackney played a hot dog vendor...
...premier was aired at Smokey Joe's popular UPenn bar, which had sponsored the first episode, said Steve Tirpening, the sitcom's director. The second episode will be shown "soon...