Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sinatra has acknowledged acquaintanceships with several gangsters, including the late Lucky Luciano. But the singer denied having willingly posed backstage at the Westchester Premier Theater in Tarrytown, N.Y., in 1976 with several gangsters, including New York Mafia Boss Carlo Gambino. Explained Sinatra...
...Premier may be Kania 's last chance to restore order peaceably...
...green uniform gleaming with nine rows of ribbons on his chest and four silver stars on each epaulet, General Wojciech Jaruzelski strode to the rostrum of Warsaw's parliamentary chamber and formally took over as Poland's new Premier. In the clipped tones of a military commander, he addressed both a plea and a stern warning to the troubled nation. "I am appealing at this moment for three months of uninterrupted work, 90 days of calm," said the general. He went on to promise that his new government would be willing to sit down with Solidarity, the independent...
...eight months, Jaruzelski issued a final admonition: "Further destructive activities may lead to conflict and to fratricidal war. Every Pole should arrive at his own conclusions." Whatever those conclusions might be, it was clear to everyone by the end of the 50-minute nationally broadcast address that the new Premier meant business...
Poland's new Premier is no stranger to conflict. He fought the Nazis in World War II, helped crush anti-Communist guerrillas in 1945-47, and was adept enough at political infighting to hang on as Defense Minister under three successive party leaders. To Poles contemplating his possible future moves, however, Wojciech Jaruzelski's most striking quality is the sense of patriotic conciliation that led him, in 1976 and 1980, to refuse to turn his armed forces against strikers...