Word: premieres
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Krenz said the current Central Committee would meet today to approve holding the congress. Also today, East Germany's Parliament is to meet to name a Cabinet to replace the one that resigned last Tuesday. The reform-minded party chief of Dresden. Hans Modrow, was expected to be named premier...
...began by taking on Premier Li Peng, whom he had pointedly not asked to meet. In a private session, Nixon reportedly deleted no vitriolics in expressing American outrage over the regime's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators last June. To end the current impasse, he suggested, the two nations should halt their recriminations and propose mutual talking points. He threw out the first one: "When I go to the embassy, I hope there will not be guards with AK-47s outside." Li retorted that the troops had been posted there to prevent the escape of dissident Fang Lizhi...
...committee elevated four new members to thePolitburo, the nation's most powerfuldecision-making body. They included Hans Modrow,the 61-year-old Dresden party chief who is said tobe a leading advocate for democratic reforms and acandidate for the post of premier...
...Cabinet, led by 75-year-old Premier Willi Stoph, resigned jointly yesterday. The body has little power and implements policy made by the Politburo. Stoph and several other ministers also are Politburo members...
...leaders," Helms explains now. "Not only for moral reasons but also because in the U.S. nothing can be kept secret for very long." He was right. During the following few years, a drumbeat of press stories and congressional investigations disclosed past attempts by the CIA to kill Congolese ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba, Cuba's Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. Though apparently none of these plots succeeded, President Gerald Ford included the assassination ban in a 1976 public Executive Order regulating U.S. intelligence activities. Every President since has adopted the ban with little change...