Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television interview last week, a besieged Premier Laurent Fabius credited reporters with helping clear up "this unfortunate affair," noting that "it is they who have opened the floodgates to a vein of lies that existed...
With such potential terrorist targets as Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski and Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq on the guest list, the precautions are not excessive. The U.N. has been brushed by terrorism before. In 1964, as Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara was castigating the U.S. in the General Assembly chamber, an anti-Castro group fired a 3 1/2-in. bazooka round at the U.N. from the Queens side of the East River. (It fell 200 yds. short, rattling the windows and more than a few delegates.) The security chiefs' greatest fear...
...whose primary loyalties were to the past. Gone were half a dozen aging military men, including the ailing Marshal Ye Jianying, 88, who had helped Mao Tse-tung plan the Long March of 1934-35 (see SPECIAL SECTION). Gone too was Politburo Member Deng Yingchao, 81, the widow of Premier Chou En-lai and the country's highest-ranking woman official. Also on the retirement list were three former Ministers of Public Security, as well as such veterans of the Cultural Revolution as Wang Dongxing, 69, a onetime Mao bodyguard who in the mid-1970s rose to become a vice...
...from the Elysee Palace for two days. At his weekly Cabinet meeting, Mitterrand asked questions about the Greenpeace affair and furiously turned to Hernu, whose responsibilities included overseeing the secret services. "I want to know," said Mitterrand. "I want to know." Next day the President sent a letter to Premier Laurent Fabius noting that French newspapers and magazines were uncovering "new elements that we cannot evaluate because of the absence of information from the appropriate services." It was a strange plea. Mitterrand was, in effect, asking his own government to supply information the press had already published. He ended...
...leaders of France's conservative opposition parties, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, former Premier Raymond Barre and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, carefully refrained from attacking Mitterrand, who has come to symbolize France's commitment to nuclear independence. But their underlings were scathing. Said National Assembly Deputy Philippe Mestre: "Either the President was aware--in which case he has lied and this is Watergate--or he was not aware, in which case he's a fool." For Mitterrand it was a no-win situation. Having tasted political blood, the opposition appeared intent on keeping up the pressure to force...