Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member council, which held its first organizational meeting on January 29, seeks to reinforce the Extension School's aim of providing a "premier non-conventional education," according to Jeffrey M. Siskind, president of the council...
...also became emotionally involved in the life of his villagers. Outraged to see women who were seven, eight, and even nine months pregnant forced to undergo abortions, he protested to then Vice Premier Chen Muhua, head of the national birth control program. Chinese officials were soon complaining to visiting American scholars that Mosher was abusing his status as a researcher. At various times the Chinese accused Mosher of traveling in forbidden areas, trying to smuggle old coins out of the country, bribing villagers to gain information and bringing in an unauthorized female companion from Hong Kong. Mosher has denied...
...late at the factory, Andropov is seeking to free his creaking bureaucracy of its habitual corruption. Since assuming office, he has reshuffled some 20 top officials and summarily dismissed six others. He pointedly chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone civil police with his successor at the KGB, General Vitali Fedorchuk...
...gaining ground, the center-right opposition stepped up its attack last week. Neo-Gaullist Leader and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac told supporters, who had gathered in a drab, working-class district of the capital, that the Socialists and Communists were "consummate artists when it comes to lying." Former Premier Raymond Barre blasted the government for the "cacophony" of its contradictory policies. Mitterrand remained above the fray, but Socialist First Secretary Lionel Jospin and Communist Boss Georges Marchais tried to drum up the loyal leftist vote in the suburban industrial "Red belt" around Paris. Marchais told a rally in Communist-controlled...
...defending the government's record, Premier Pierre Mauroy points out proudly that inflation has been brought down to 9.7%, the first single-digit rate since 1978. Mauroy can also justly claim that he has "stabilized" unemployment at about 2.1 million, or 8.9% of the work force, vs. 1.66 million, or 7.2%, under former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. But the cost has been considerable. The French franc has lost 32% of its value against the dollar since the Socialists were elected in May 1981. The foreign trade deficit has increased about 50%, to $12.7 billion...