Word: premieres
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When Vice President George Bush faced Chinese Vice Premier Wan Li across the net at Peking's International Club early one morning last week, the doubles match struck some as a paradigm of his six-day China visit. Teamed with Donald Gregg, his national security adviser, Bush took the first two sets, 6-3 and 6-4, then lost the third on a tie breaker, 6-7, after Wan changed partners...
Today, the air above the Stadium turf should be full of bullets--not balloons--as the Ivy League's premier passer, Doug Butler, tries to pierce the Crimson secondary...
...crew member was killed. For weeks the government denied any involvement in the bombing of the ship, which had been docked in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, before it was to lead a protest against French nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll. Under persistent pressure from the French press, Premier Fabius was eventually forced to admit that French intelligence agents had indeed been ordered to blow up the ship. The scandal tarred the government with suspicions of a cover-up and forced the resig- nation of Defense Minister Charles Hernu...
...Honorine. Widely admired for his wit and personal charm, he is one of the country's most popular politicians, regularly topping the opinion polls with about a 55% approval rating on general leadership ability. Not only is he far in front of Mitterrand's 38%, but he also leads Premier Fabius, 39, and former Premier Raymond Barre, 61, the most popular conservative opposition figure, both of whom draw some 50%. Rocard, whose standing among the Socialist rank and file had never equaled his public ratings, has emerged in recent months as an influential force within the party. Rocard, concedes...
According to an editors' note in the premier issue, the National Interest makes three assumptions: the primary purpose of U.S. foreign policy must be to defend the national interests of the U.S.; international politics remains power politics; and the Soviet Union represents the single greatest threat to America's interests. Two decades ago, the journal's editors contend, those statements were considered truisms, but today they have become almost exclusively conservative beliefs...