Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 7, the Harvard men's heavyweight crew won the premier event at the world's premier rowing regatta for the first time in more than a quarter of a century...
...succeed if a vacancy occurred. But Lee is a native Taiwanese who did not accompany Chiang's father, Chiang Kai-shek, when the Nationalists fled to Taiwan after the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949, and he has never made it to the innermost circle of the KMT. Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, 71, who does not suffer those handicaps, has had to take much of the heat for the Tenth Credit scandal. As governor of the Central Bank before becoming Premier, he was financial czar for 15 years...
While most Harvard athletes were vacationing, the Men's Varsity Crew team was off in England busy winning the world's premier rowing regatta. The Crimson took the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Rowing Regatta in Henley-on-Thames with a three-and-two-thirds lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years. Harvard had not won the prestigious event since...
...sharp criticism from David Lange, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, who claimed that Tricot had ignored evidence submitted by the New Zealand authorities. The report, fumed the angry Prime Minister, was "too transparent to merit the description of whitewash." Lange seemed somewhat mollified later in the week when Premier Fabius made a conciliatory public statement calling the bombing "a criminal act" and pledging that "the guilty, whoever they are, will have to be punished...
After 17 days of reviewing government documents, reading diplomatic wires and questioning officials, ranging from Premier Fabius and Defense Minister Charles Hernu to the three agents who were aboard the Ouvea, Tricot said that he had "absolutely no idea" who was behind the bombing. Tricot himself fanned the skepticism when, in a newspaper interview following the report's release, he conceded that he "did not exclude the possibility that I was duped...