Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other presidents have made it here for anniversary celebrations. Harvard has had luminaries like King Juan Carlos, Alexander Solzhynitsin, Olaf Palme, Giscard d'Estaing, and even Burt Ward visit recently. But it took four years for Reagan to find the time to meet with any Soviet leader, and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachov still gets put on hold when he calls to wish Ron a happy birthday. So who are we to complain...
...last week as Mitterrand approved Chirac's selection of a new Cabinet after 48 hours of intense negotiations. Thirteen of the ministerial appointments were filled by Chirac associates, and nine went to representatives of Giscard's U.D.F., the second-largest conservative faction. As the new Cabinet took office, outgoing Premier Laurent Fabius formally submitted his government's resignation and used the occasion for a touch of political prophecy. Said he: "We will be back...
This belated recognition came as the President endorsed a January report on acid rain by Drew Lewis, former U.S. Transportation Secretary, and William Davis, former Ontario premier. Their investigation diplomatically divided responsibility for the problem between the two nations, but recommended that the U.S. take bigger steps toward a cleanup: a $5 billion, five-year effort, with costs split by the Government and business, to develop technology for burning coal more cleanly. The huge quantity of coal burned by the industrial and electrical plants of the Ohio Valley is a major source of airborne sulfur oxides that return to earth...
...recent parliamentary elections than Jacques Chirac. Hurling himself into the fray, Chirac traveled nearly 200,000 miles, visited some 170 districts and made 150 public appearances. For Chirac, who will return to the offices in the elegant Hotel de Matignon where he served between 1974 and 1976 as Premier under then President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, all the hard work was a natural extension of the drive that has made him one of France's most formidable political figures...
...political circles, Chirac is better known for his combative nature and his fierce ambition to become President. The new Premier's advisers softened his image during the recent campaign by dressing him in muted tweeds and exchanging his severe black-framed eyeglasses for lighter tortoiseshells. Still, the real Chirac may prove irrepressible. Says Charles Pasqua, the new Interior Minister: "Chirac is a fighter, given to committing himself...