Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pasqua launched into one of the strongest attacks yet against President Francois Mitterrand's four-year-old Socialist government. "If it is proved that the French secret services are | implicated in this affair," he proclaimed, "then the responsibility could not be sought anywhere except at the level of the Premier. Who is to believe that the military can act without orders? France is not a banana republic...
...response to the scandal, President Mitterrand appointed Bernard Tricot, 65, a highly respected aide to President Charles de Gaulle 17 years ago, to head an official commission of inquiry. As the accusations and conjectures multiplied, Tricot discreetly interviewed Premier Laurent Fabius, Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, head of the DGSE, and other high-ranking government and military officials. Tricot's mission is to find out who sank the Rainbow Warrior and who gave the orders to do it. His eagerly awaited report is expected to be issued this week...
...event, held last week at the University of California, Los Angeles, was the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the premier showcase of the most esoteric of computer sciences. Five years ago, a similar meeting at Stanford University was attended by 900 earnest academics. The UCLA gathering drew a crowd of 10,000 that included military brass, investment bankers and scores of corporate headhunters...
RECOVERING. Mikhail Baryshnikov, 37, Soviet-born premier danseur and artistic director of the American Ballet Theater; from surgery on his right knee, which was operated on in 1983 and reinjured last month during a 29-city U.S. tour with his own small summer traveling troupe; in New York City. He is expected to be sidelined at least through September...
Once considered Boston's premier restaurant. Locke-Ober (3 and 4 Winter Pl.) remains one of Harvard's oldest and best traditions. An extensive menu includes the legendary specialty of the house, lobster savannah, along with many veal, beef, and game dishes. More gregarious traditionalists will feel right at home at Durgin Park (340 N. Market St. and also 100 Huntington Ave., Boston), where diners sit elbow-to-elbow carving succulent prime ribs. And for the native New Yorker, Grill 23 (161 Berkeley St., Boston) serves Manhattan-style beef, veal, and seafood fare...