Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rome, Italian Deputy Premier Arnaldo Forlani summarized the mood well as he declared that "silence is more useful than an excess of words, and in this affair there have already been too many." He, as well as the Reaganauts, seemed keenly aware that the apprehension of the Palestinian hijackers represented a short-term victory but that the episode might even prompt new outrages. Said a senior intelligence official: "I expect terrorists to change tactics and attack U.S. officials and facilities again, maybe even in the U.S." The nature of terrorism is such that no one can tell where the next...
...Mitterrand put pragmatism before ideology and turned from big-spending policies to belt-tightening austerity. Although it champions self-determination in Third World nations, the government has moved cautiously in meeting the demands of separatists in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Last year Mitterrand replaced Premier Pierre Mauroy, a populist, with Laurent Fabius, a technocrat who avidly supports the President's pragmatic approach. That was too much for the Communists, and they pulled out of a long-standing alliance between the two parties. These policy switches disillusioned many committed Socialists but failed to win many conservative converts...
Along with the dawn-to-dusk shoreline revelry, there is some serious rowing. Andy Sudduth, America's premier single sculler, will race. So will Tiff Wood and several past U.S. Olympic boats...
...giving the President an honorary is that "he's not worthy of one." In answer to the query "Why?," I usually hear some variant of the theme "he's an enemy of higher education" (read "he's tried to cut student aid"). Never mind that Reagan is the premier politician of our times, with more practical knowledge of politics than any Harvard undergraduate Gov concentrator--he's still "unworthy" of a degree...
...medicine, is ambiguous on the issue of independence. His election was a defeat for hard-line P.Q. separatists. Only one out of six Quebecers, according to a Gallup poll released last week, still favors secession. But his victory may prove short- lived. Quebec's Liberals, led by former Provincial Premier Robert Bourassa, 52, had already whittled the P.Q. majority in the national assembly, the provincial parliament, down to two votes. But in addition to resigning the premiership, Levesque also gave up his national assembly seat. His departure last week cut the P.Q. margin to a single vote...