Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Authorities in Warsaw were getting ready for a possible confrontation. Addressing a tense session of parliament, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski announced that special army units would join police to suppress "deepening anarchy, hooliganism, antistate and anti-Soviet excesses." He implied that force might be used unless Solidarity retreated from the boldly political demands it had adopted at the first Gdansk session two weeks earlier. That meeting had called for free democratic elections, worker control of industrial enterprises and-most provocative of all-the spread of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet-controlled East bloc...
...premier match pitted Erica Schulman against Briton Joanne Wrighley. Aggressive net play by Schulman proved crucial as she dispatched of Wrighley's more staid baseline style...
Delivering a lecture on "Survival in North America," Canada's premier literary figure used the occasion to launch an appeal for better U.S. understanding of Canada...
Buck Logan, a premier distance runner, one of the best in the East, and "certainly our best," according to McCurdy, is already lost for the fall due to an achilles tendon problem. While Logan is the only harrier sidelined for the season at this point, Harvard has few top-flight distance runners returning who have not been handicapped by injury...
Jimmy Carter, 56, on a 1½-week tour of China, dined with Premier Zhao Ziyang, cycled with commuters and displayed Sherpa-like stamina by scampering up and down the steeper sections of the Great Wall as Wife Rosalynn and former Press Secretary Jody Powell, 37, gasped for breath. At a tête-à-tête with Deng Xiaoping, 77, in the Great Hall of the People, Carter told the Chinese Senior Vice Chairman, "If you had been my running mate in the last election, we would have won again." So much for Walter What...