Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ratify the government's settlement with the striking workers. Then came the first shock: a bulletin that Gierek had been stricken with a "serious heart disturbance" and was being attended by five physicians, including the Minister of Health. But the proceedings continued, and in his televised address Premier Jozef Pinkowski eloquently recommended that the strike agreement be adopted so that the government could go on and "rebuild the confidence of the nation...
This week China's Senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was expected to step down from his government post, along with Premier Hua Guofeng, in favor of a new team of trusted, younger technocrats. But first Deng saw to it that the National People's Congress, whose 3,500 delegates have been meeting in Peking for the past ten days, approved a parcel of new measures. Among the miscellany: the debut of the personal income tax* and a raise in the legal marriage age (20 for women, 22 for men). The important changes, however, were a series of economic...
Some of the programs have already been tested successfully in Sichuan, the country's most populous province, under the governorship of Zhao Ziyang, 61, who is Deng's choice to replace Hua as Premier. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, published in the Washington Post last week, Deng conceded that his program may well bring in "some decadent influences of capitalism, but I think that this is not so terrible." In any case, Deng added, "capitalism is superior to feudalism...
...Vice Premier nonetheless defended China's support for the genocidal regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia and disparaged accounts that 1 million people had died under Pol Pot's rule. By its occupation of Laos and Cambodia, Viet Nam, he said, had become "the Cuba of the East." China's own attack against Viet Nam last year was not very successful, he noted, because many countries disapproved of it. But "we reserve our right to give them another lesson...
...however, Cooper must be considered the A.L.'s premier first-sacker. A patient hitter who strives for continual improvement, he looked at his .308 batting average, 24 home runs and 106 RBIs of last year and wasn't satisfied. By swinging more selectively and hitting to all fields, he hoped to improve on those numbers...