Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MADROD--Pope John Paul ii shook hands with Spain's Socialist premier-designate yesterday but seven hours later took the offensive against his campaign pledges to liberalize the laws against divorce contraception and abortion...
Hence the decision to let the Soviets send Ilyichev back to the negotiating table. Hence also Premier Zhao Ziyang's recent call for a "common endeavor to combat the superpowers' hegemonism," a deliberate use of the plural that lumped the U.S. together with the Soviet Union as a threat against "peace-loving and justice-upholding countries and peoples...
...Premier Wan Li said that the Soviets "have shown themselves to be deaf to our conditions for a dialogue...
DIED. Pierre Mendès France, 75, Premier of France (1954-55) and respected godfather of the French left; of a heart attack; in Paris. A brilliant lawyer, courageous World War II pilot and intellectual...
Mendès France believed his country should forget its grand imperial illusions and curb centralized executive power. During his brief, 7½-month tenure as Premier, he pledged to end France's Indochina war within one month (and did so), gave autonomy to Tunisia and persuaded France's National Assembly to approve West German rearmament. Often politically unpopular because of his abrasive righteousness, Mendès France earned numerous enemies (including Charles de Gaulle) and was sometimes ridiculed, notably for his ill-starred recommendation that the bibulous French switch from wine to milk. But said Disciple Fran...