Word: premieres
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...level in the United States is lower because of a considerable number of blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans," Nakasone was quoted by two Japanese dailies as telling a group of fellow Liberal Democratic Party politicians. A party official later said the premier was referring to the literacy rate...
Without mentioning Nikita S. Khrushchev by name, the author indirectly criticized the late premier, who was ousted in disgrace...
...complex of La Defense, west of ^ Paris. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua said that police were "actively seeking" a young man with curly black hair who had been seen fleeing the area. The post office bomb earlier in the week exploded only 165 yards from an office used by French Premier and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, killing a female postal worker. Chirac rushed to the scene from a meeting and later declared war on "this leprosy of modern times." President Francois Mitterrand called for "combat without mercy" against the terrorist menace...
...Premier Jacques Chirac called an emergency meeting of his top security ministers immediately after the attack...
Despite such tributes and honors, however, the persistent question plaguing many minds on the eve of celebration is whether Harvard may be flaunting yesterday's gardenias and still merits the rank of premier U.S. university. The question arises in part because of Harvard's eminence. "Harvard does tend to live in the spotlight," observes Berkeley Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman. By the same token, Harvard may be more closely scrutinized because the challenges confronting it are those confronting most major universities; how Harvard copes may point to the future direction of much of higher education. Says Christopher Fordham, chancellor...