Word: premieres
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...predictably negative. In Moscow, where he had spent two days getting acquainted with new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat said that the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel were "worse than Camp David." In Nicaragua, where he was attending a meeting of nonaligned countries, Syrian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam said that his government would resist any peace terms imposed on Lebanon by Israel. Declared Khaddam: "We affirm our categorical rejection of the Israeli conditions proposed to Lebanon." Syria has already rejected Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which calls for a future relationship...
...Polish Premier Jaruzelski, saying he acted too hastily in withdrawing martial law, puts the Polish people on "disciplinary probation--the type with teeth...
...force and navy chiefs of staff, revealing what they said were still secret government studies of making major cutbacks in military manpower and procurement between 1984 and 1988. The result, :hey claimed, would be grave damage to France's defenses. As public furor over the spending cuts mounted, Premier Pierre Mauroy responded angrily, calling the disclosures part of a political "operation cooked up to cast doubt on the government's will to defend the country...
...major theme,however, was not so much politics as economics. Painfully aware of the costly lessons of the past 24 years, Premier Zhao Ziyang unveiled a belated five-year plan for China's development from 1981 to 1985 that stressed small strides instead of great leaps. Zhao predicted an average annual growth rate of only 4%, which, in fact, has already been surpassed in the past two years (1982 growth rate: 5.7%). Zhao was also refreshingly candid about his country's economic difficulties, admitting that Peking's decision three years ago to shift emphasis from traditional heavy...
Prior to the death of Leonid Brezhnev, a fairly strong consensus had emerged among Kremlinologists that Yuri Andropov would be the next Soviet Premier. Now Soviet experts are speculating on what Andropov's assumption of power means for Russia and for the rest of the world. The Crimson this week interviewed three Soviet specialists from Harvard's Russian Research Center on their views of this post-Brezhnev era. The participants were Assistant Professor of Government Mark R. Beissinger, David E. Powell, a Russian Research Center associate who recently wrote a book entitled Anti-Religious Propaganda in the Soviet Union...