Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels' directorate, said ideology must be adapted to each country. As examples of Marxist adaptation he cited some of the most ideologically extreme, even repressive, regimes of modern times. Said he: 'There are parts of Ho Chi Minh, parts of Mao, parts of Kim II Sung [Premier of North Korea] that appeal...
...Kremlinologists scrutinized the lineup of Politburo members waiting to greet Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski, they noticed a subtle, but possibly important, change. Konstantin Chernenko, 70, a burly, longtime crony of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's, occupied the No. 3 position in the receiving line. Only Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, whose presence was required by protocol, stood closer to the ailing Soviet leader. The white-maned Chernenko's commanding position set off speculation that he had won a round or two in the behind-the-scenes struggle to succeed the 75-year-old Brezhnev. At the same time...
Richard Nixon called it "the week that changed the world," and he was not exaggerating. On Feb. 28, 1972, at the close of the American President's historic trip to China, he and his host, Premier Chou Enlai, signed the Shanghai Communiqué calling for a renewal of relations between the U.S. and China, implacable enemies since the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The agreement led to an immediate exchange of diplomats by the two nations that had fought so bitterly on the battlefields of the Korean War. Despite the problems that persist, particularly those concerning...
...after President Reagan sent a message to Premier Zhao Ziyang expressing his desire for "an even stronger framework for long-term friendship," Zhao replied in a similarly cordial tone, saying in effect that China was willing to try to break the Taiwan deadlock. Clearly, in the vital interests of both nations, they must do so. As Richard Nixon, reflecting on his finest hour, wrote last week in the New York Times, "The bottom line is that both sides must recognize the paramount importance of preserving the new relationship. Neither of us can allow anything, including differences over Taiwan, to jeopardize...
...ambitions, as demonstrated during the Cuban missile crisis and America's alert during the previous month's Mideast war. He illustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his enlustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his encounter in 1969 with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who had come uninvited to Peking airport to discuss the easing of Sino-Soviet tensions...