Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then it was the turn of French Premier Laurent Fabius. After an hour-long chat with Gorbachev, Fabius recounted that he had handed the Soviet leader a list of ten pending human rights cases that are of special interest to the Mitterrand government. Said Fabius: "We had a very live conversation." Gorbachev's response came during the speech to the National Assembly in which he called for separate nuclear arms negotiations with Britain and France. "The Soviet Union attaches the most serious importance to ensuring human rights," he declared. But he added that "it is only necessary to free this...
...After Premier Fabius bid the Soviet couple adieu that afternoon, a weary high French official delivered his assessment of Gorbachev's marathon effort. "I can tell you, he made good use of his public forum," the official said. "He knows what he wants. He is firm, but he is not without flexibility and subtlety." So far as his major objectives in Paris were concerned, however, the Soviet leader's charm and subtlety yielded little in the way of substantive results...
Ever since politically beleaguered Rene Levesque, 63, announced last June that he would resign both as Quebec's premier and leader of the ruling Parti Quebecois, provincial Justice Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson, 39, has been the front runner to succeed him. Last week, in a provincewide party election, Johnson won 60% of the vote and the helm of the party that swept to power in 1976 on a surge of sentiment for separating Quebec from the rest of Canada. He ascends to the provincial premiership that his father Daniel held from 1966 until his death...
During those same three years, with Jernigan in the number one slot, the Harvard squash team has compiled a 31-0 record. Yet success hasn't spoiled him yet. Above all, the star athlete remains polite and unassuming, if very difficult to find--his status as a premier amateur/professional squash player keeps him busy...
Less surprising than the content of the message was its timing. As Premier, and thus head of the country's 64-member Council of Ministers, Tikhonov had been expected to deliver the state-of-the-government address at the 27th Communist Party Congress, scheduled for next February. His retirement before that date reinforced the impression of Western observers that Gorbachev is determined to overhaul the Soviet economy, for which the Premier is at least nominally responsible. Last June, Gorbachev publicly excoriated four ministers, who reported to Tikhonov, for slipshod work and failure to rectify bureaucratic shortcomings. Nonetheless, Tikhonov...