Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ally, Japan, and a new friend, the People's Republic of China. The occasion was a memorial service for Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, who had died June 12, shortly before his Liberal Democratic Party swept to a resounding election victory. Among the dignitaries attending was Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng, whom Carter was eager to meet...
...honor Ohira, Carter sat through a two-hour service in the Budokan, a martial-arts hall redecorated for the occasion. Premier Hua, dressed in a gray Mao jacket, was in the front row and, although the two men did not meet, they looked firmly at each other, as though each was taking the other's measure...
...morning for his session with Hua-15 minutes alone, an hour accompanied by aides. The meeting proved to be informal and spontaneous. Hua impressed the Americans as witty and candid. At one point, while his interpreter was droning through a pompous English translation of the Chinese official line, the Premier grinned broadly at Carter. Later, Hua used an American cliché to put down Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who has accepted $1.6 billion in Soviet aid in exchange for Indian recognition of the Soviet-backed puppet regime in Cambodia. Mrs. Gandhi, said Hua, had decided to "take the money...
...than on a common world view, Carter found more apparent support from Hua than he has received lately from some of America's allies in Europe. Indeed, when the President told Hua that he had met with "mixed success" in selling his policy views in Europe, the Chinese Premier chuckled sympathetically at the understatement...
...country cousin who ventures in to see his city relatives carries 50 pounds of grass--the Sack premier audience almost died a collective, happy death when he said he guessed it might be worth a few hundred bucks. Chong smokes billy-club sized joints and a cockroach he finds in the jar labelled "Roaches." Cheech sniffs salt thinking it's cocaine (and to climax this butguster drinks urine to slake his thirst). And at the end, a spaceship arrives to carry away all the pot bushes in a country field. Pretty humorous...