Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painful consequences of the French franc's third devaluation in 22 months of Socialist government. Speaking on nationwide television, Mitterrand faced a public also confused by a slow-motion Cabinet reshuffle in which, after days of hesitation and debate among his advisers, the President had anticlimactically reappointed Premier Pierre Mauroy, 54, to head a streamlined government composed of virtually the same faces. Considering the difficulty of his task, Mitterrand's rhetorical talents rose to the occasion. In an inspirational vein reminiscent of former President Charles de Gaulle, Mitterrand urged the French to be "mobilized without weakness and complacency...
...currency Frenchmen will be allowed to take abroad and a 1% income tax surcharge to help cover the $1.9 billion social security deficit. To many experts, the emphasis on "rigor" was strangely reminiscent of the policies of former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his Premier, Raymond Barre, an approach that Mitterrand had harshly criticized during the 1981 presidential campaign...
...Yuri Andropov, 68. Then, as if tales of an Andropov illness were not intriguing enough, the official Soviet news agency TASS set off a new round of speculation with a terse two-line communique announcing the promotion of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, to the post of First Deputy Premier...
...George M. Cohan, Broadway's premier showman and songwriter of the World War I era (Over There, The Yankee Doodle Boy), was accused of failing to document a claim of $55,000 in expenses. Cohan won a landmark court victory in 1930, when the judge ruled that his estimated expenses were reasonable for a man in his position. "The Cohan Rule" survived until Congress passed new rules on documentation...
...premier deejays of the rap scene is Grandmaster Flash, who, with his MCs, the Furious Five, turned out one of 1982's best singles, a seven-minute-long and atypically political number called The Message. Flash and the crew are treach, which is short for treacherous and slang for what a decade ago would have been called superfine. Grandmaster favors leathers, tip to toe, and has FLASH spelled out in lightning-bolt letters on the back of his jacket. Mr. Ness, of the Furious Five, favors metal studs, while his compatriot, Melle Mel, currently opts for fur. This...