Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BEIJING--Premier Zhao Ziyang defended the Communist Party's purge of dissident members, but said in an interview broadcast yesterday that intellectuals are free to voice their opinions outside the party...
...premier, Zhao has been the main implementer of market-force economic reforms advocated by Deng to reduce the role of central planning...
Since the consolidation of Harvard and Radcliffe in 1974, the number of women participating in intercollegiate sports at Harvard has ballooned, and the Class of '88 has proven itself to be the premier group of female athletes in Harvard history...
...provided some $90 million in military aid this year to its former colony, the French have resisted being drawn deeper into the conflict. Defense Minister Andre Giraud expressed "deepest regrets" over the stepped-up fighting, though he declared that France will continue to defend the Chadian capital from attack. Premier Jacques Chirac last week repeated calls for a "negotiated solution" to the war. Though France supports Chadian President Hissene Habre's claim to the Aozou Strip, the Chirac government would prefer to have the issue settled by international arbitration. Chad's African neighbors take similar positions. At week...
Last week Mitterrand and French Premier Jacques Chirac took up the battle in Quebec City at the Second Annual Francophone Summit. The meeting brought together representatives of 38 countries that use French as a primary or secondary language, including Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and former French colonies in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific. While the concept of a union of French-speaking communities was developed 20 years ago, not until last year did Paris acknowledge its dependence on this fraternity to bolster the mother tongue by convening the first such summit in Paris. This time around, the French...