Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Reagan's approval, Bush presided over two Cabinet meetings, carefully taking his accustomed seat and leaving the President's chair empty to symbolize the temporary nature of his enhanced authority. The Vice President also conferred with Netherlands Premier Andreas van Agt and Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagiel-ski, who had come to Washington to see Reagan...
...significantly increased their invasion capability, making the situation "far more serious" than before. Next day State Department Spokesman William Dyess warned that Soviet preparedness had reached the point where "they are capable of moving at any time." Vice President George Bush underscored U.S. concern by telling Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, who was in Washington seeking economic aid (see box), that "we follow a policy of nonintervention in Poland's internal affairs, and we are anxious that others do the same...
...breakthrough came at a seven-hour meeting between Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski and Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa on the eve of the threatened strike. There was little optimism when those talks got under way at noon in Warsaw's 17th century Koniecpolski Palace. Three previous meetings had failed to defuse the crisis that erupted last month when police in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz brutally evicted 26 union members from a provincial assembly hall. Indeed, a massive warning strike to protest the beatings had halted the country for four hours on March 27. With Solidarity brandishing a list...
...music from both sides of the Atlantic. He also employs guitarist Adrian Beiew and vocalist Nona Hendryx, fresh from sessions with the funk-ified Talking Heads, and David Johanssen and Lou Reed, two of New York's most influential throats, and Big Youth and Linton Kwesi Johnson, reggae's premier "toasters" (talk-over...
...blaming Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski for the incident. On taking office last month, the Soviet-trained general pleaded for "90 days of calm" and then consistently worked for accommodation with the unions. "There is trust in him and his uniform," Walesa told the strikers last week. "Jaruzelski is a good man," said a Warsaw taxi driver. "No known girlfriends. No dacha. No money stashed away. Not like others who are not as equal as they pretend...