Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound indistinguishable from those on the VOA or England's BBC World service. This new sophistication, however, does not exclude an unfounded allegation here and there. Soviet media actively spread the word, for example, that the U.S. was responsible for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro. In addition, events often have to be filtered through an ideological bureaucracy before they are reported. For example, news of the death of former Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin was withheld for 36 hours by TASS and Radio Moscow. Even Soviet citizens heard the news first on Western broadcasts...
...rising costs and a wasteful industrial system. To achieve new growth, it must somehow make better use of what it has. Not surprisingly, Brezhnev devoted two-thirds of his keynote speech to domestic affairs, stressing higher industrial and agricultural productivity and less waste. Speaking later in the week, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov spelled out the guidelines of a new five-year economic plan that aims, among other things, at overcoming chronic shortages of food and consumer goods. In that context, Tikhonov criticized the loss of trade with the U.S., which has dropped by more than 50% the past year...
...will probably try to help with short-term roll over deals and other bilateral measures. The U.S., for example, immediately announced the deferment of $88 million in Polish debt payments that would have been due over the next four months. West German Economics Minister Otto Lambsdorff assured Polish Deputy Premier Henryk Kisiel that Bonn would be willing to cooperate in comparable ways...
...sympathy strikes ended at the University of Warsaw and 19 other campuses. In the southeastern city of Rzeszów, meanwhile, a seven-week farmers' sit-in ended after government negotiators signed agreements with peasant leaders there and in nearby Ustrzyki Dolne. Just seven days after the new Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski had issued his dramatic appeal for "90 days of calm," peace, it seemed, had broken out on all labor fronts...
Telegrams of support flowed into the new Premier's office not only from party officials, but also from workers, students and local chapters of Solidarity, the in dependent union federation. The whole country seemed to realize that a campaign of cooperation was Poland's last, best hope of consolidating its bold experiment in socialist "renewal" and avoiding the ultimate disaster of a Soviet invasion. Summing up the increasingly conciliatory national mood, Solidarity Spokesman Karol Modzelewski told the daily Zycie Warszawy that the new government "created a genuine chance for rolling back a dangerous course of events...