Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day Cornea was flown home to Paris aboard a French air force jet. There he was greeted by his wife, by two colleagues who had been freed by their Lebanese kidnapers last June and, finally, by Premier Jacques Chirac. "I cannot believe I am in Paris. I still think it is a dream," Cornea said as he spoke tearfully of his homecoming and of his friend and colleague Jean-Louis Normandin, 34, who remains captive in Lebanon...
...pace of reform. On April 5, 1976, students swelled the ranks of the 100,000 demonstrators who massed in Peking's Tiananmen Square to protest the removal by Maoist radicals of thousands of wreaths that had been placed at the Monument to the People's Heroes in memory of Premier Chou En-lai, who had died the previous January. The protesters obliquely attacked Mao and waved banners declaring support for Deng Xiaoping, then senior Deputy Premier. The demonstration quickly turned violent and was suppressed by authorities, who pronounced it "counterrevolutionary." The incident marked the beginning...
...event marked the most sweeping change in the Vietnamese Communist leadership since the party's founding in 1930. At the Sixth Party Congress in Hanoi last week, three longtime stalwarts resigned because of "advanced age and bad health": General Secretary Truong Chinh, 79, Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, and veteran Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, 76. They are among the last members of the generation of leaders that defeated the French and the Americans on the battlefield. But they failed to reap the benefits of peace, leaving behind a legacy of 800% inflation, widespread unemployment and chronic shortages...
...join together to assert its strategic interests in superpower negotiations. Since the summit at Reykjavik, where the Europeans were horrified to see Reagan come close to abolishing their nuclear umbrella, calls for greater European security cooperation have been increasing. The most powerful statement came two weeks ago, when French Premier Jacques Chirac proposed a new European security agreement to ensure a strong nuclear deterrent on the Continent. In addition, since Reykjavik, European leaders have relied even more on their long-standing system of informal contacts among top aides to help formulate and coordinate policy options, especially in relation...
Indeed they had. Appearing on nationwide television, French Premier Jacques Chirac had announced two days earlier the withdrawal of his proposal to reform the country's tradition-bound university system. The measure had sparked three weeks of bloody street protests that left some 200 students and policemen injured and Oussekine dead. Suddenly, within the space of a few frenzied days, Chirac faced the most serious crisis of his nine months in office. Though the Premier's retreat defused the controversy, the affair badly strained his coalition government and raised questions about the future of his legislative program. "Chirac...