Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic measures brought the hibernating political opposition out in force for the first time since the Socialist victory. "Five years of such policies will set France back 20 years," fumed Raymond Barre, the former conservative Premier and an economics professor. Declared defeated President Giscard d'Estaing, in his maiden public comment on Mitterrand's performance: "Devaluation after just a few months in office rings out like the first sound of an alarm bell...
...Peking government in an estimated 50,000 "house churches." Many of these churches were formed after the Cultural Revolution of the late '60s, when Chinese Christians were persecuted and their regular places of worship closed. Now even the more tolerant regime of Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping and Premier Zhao Ziyang has begun to bristle at the swift expansion of the house church movement, and is hardly likely to countenance the Bible smuggling effort. Says an American ex-Marine who led Project Pearl: "Between obedience to God and obedience to men, we choose obedience...
...accompanied Deng Xiaoping on the Chinese premier's historic visit to the United States in 1979. It was "the first time China sent a true leader to the United States," Yao says proudly of the trip for which he handled press relations. That trip, he believes, was important for his country because China and the U.S. have had "more years of friendship" than antagonism. And it was important for Yao, Chief of the Press Division for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, because most of his life has been dominated by the bitter conflict between the two nations...
...concerted efforts of conservatives to get Mitterrand to change his mind failed. Throughout the summer, businessmen had lobbied Premier Pierre Mauroy, Finance Minister Jacques Delors and Industry Minister Pierre Dreyfus, all moderates who were thought to consider the nationalization plan excessive. The Conseil d'Etat, a 199-man body that advises the government on the constitutionality of legislation, warned that it might be discriminatory to take over French companies while leaving foreign ones in private hands. But Mitterrand remained loyal to a central plank in the Common Program he signed with the Communists in 1972. Declared the President last...
Torn between former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his rival, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, the opposition is too fragmented to put up much of a fight when the issue comes up in Parliament this month. So far, the vacuum has been filled only by former Premier Raymond Barre, whose ponderous oratory and demeanor symbolized economic discipline during the Giscard years. "The nationalizations are a source of uncertainty for our enterprises and a brake on investment and exports," he scolded. "This experience is going to show that nationalized businesses are costlier than private ones...