Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked what would happen if they were launched against the U.S.S.R.: "Will a French missile have a stamp on it, 'I am French. I was not to be taken into account? ' " When Loory inquired what effect his promotion last month to the additional post of First Deputy Premier would have on his duties, Gromyko deadpanned: "I think I can say the Foreign Minister will not have less work to do." It was an act that the Great Communicator himself might applaud...
...curator of Irish wit and Boston wisdom, Tip O'Neill, 70. The Speaker of the House has been spending his Easter recess in China with a contingent of 13 Congressmen on an itinerary that last week included visits in Peking with both Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 78, and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 64. After venturing that there had been "a tremendous meeting of minds," O'Neill let slip at a press conference with Western journalists that "we had no knowledge before we came as to the strong position of the Chinese government with regard to the Taiwan question." While...
RECOVERING. Dang Tuyet Mai, 41, beautiful wife of Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier of South Viet Nam who escaped the Communist takeover of his country in 1975 and is now a liquor store owner in Westminster, Calif.; from a suicide attempt (she took an overdose of Valium); in Manila, while a guest of Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, a friend since the 1960s...
...move that took the diplomatic community by surprise, Gromyko was given the additional responsibilities of a First Deputy Premier. The veteran diplomat, who after 26 years in the post has come to personify Soviet foreign policy abroad, had been mentioned as a possible contender for the office of Soviet President, which is still vacant following Brezhnev's death. Instead, he will now assume a post on the governing Council of Ministers as one of three top deputies to Premier Nikolai Tikhonov...
...deals are made--at least not with those on the periphery, and she's always been on the periphery." Nevertheless, Heckler did make quite a lot of noise about Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment to the Supreme Court, claiming it was she who'd made the President "premier" to appoint a woman. Whether it was her doing or not, the exchange of one woman justice for the ERA may not have been the best trade--off for American women...