Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downfall of Cossiga's seven-month-old government, however, was lamented more than most. A first-time Premier who had served as Interior Minister during the Moro affair, the scholarly, multilingual Cossiga, 51, turned out to be unexpectedly engaging and energetic. In Parliament he managed to put across a comparatively tough package of antiterrorist legislation, and despite Communist opposition, won approval for basing NATO's new, intermediate-range nuclear cruise missiles on Italian soil...
Levinger was the founder of Qiryat Arba. Shortly after the 1967 war, he led a group of his followers, posing as Swiss tourists, to Hebron, where they squatted in the Park Hotel until the Labor government of Premier Levi Eshkol gave them permission to settle in a nearby military encampment. Once their presence was established, the squatters pushed for permanent quarters. In due course, Qiryat Arba, a fortress-like project of high-rise apartments, shops, synagogues and schools, was built by the government at a cost of $50 million...
...Cabinet last month approved a resolution allowing for Jewish settlement in Hebron and in other Arab towns, but the Cabinet has been split on how it should be carried out. Impatient with the delay, Levinger's people are now threatening to occupy vacant houses in Hebron. Premier Menachem Begin has said the squatters are violating the law, but he has not ordered the army to evict them. On the contrary, army reservists stand guard outside the occupied Hadassah clinic round the clock to protect the squatters. Some of the soldiers dislike the duty. Said one reservist: "I vomit twice...
...French have long shown a relaxed attitude toward inflation, chiefly because wages have more than kept up with prices. But with inflation climbing up to 12.9% during the year ending in January, Premier Raymond Barre has promised to intensify the country's inflation fight by means of low budget deficits and controlled monetary growth. But there are trouble signs: pressure is building to hold wages down, which would surely enrage the highly politicized unions and endanger the 1981 re-election prospects of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...lanky freshman, who had singled and scored the visitors' initial tally in the first, also recorded the afternoon's premier defensive play, ranging far to his left to gun down roadrunner Mike Brown in the third...