Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders by young women posing as the mothers of sleeping babies. And a Vietnamese gang member testified that the head of his crime network was none other than Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier and air force boss during the U.S. involvement in Viet...
...declared that "socialism does not mean pauperism, for it aims at the elimination of poverty." But many politically "conservative" Chinese, who still believe that penury is a virtue, may feel that the new brand of socialism sounds suspiciously like capitalism. In the highest echelons, Deng has been supported by Premier Zhao Ziyang and General Secretary Hu Yaobang, but has evidently run into some stiff resistance over the pace of his program from the three other members of the influential Politburo Standing Committee: President Li Xiannian, former Planning Czar Chen Yu and Marshal Ye Jianying, a Communist leader for half...
...companies were buffeted harder by the last recession than makers of that premier symbol of executive prestige and power, the corporate jet. Last week the still struggling manufacturers gathered in Atlanta to display their latest efforts to potential buyers...
Such skepticism was voiced most angrily last week by Taiwan. The Chinese continue to hope that the breakaway Nationalists will one day follow Hong Kong's example and rejoin the mainland. At present that seems highly unlikely. In a vituperative denunciation of the agreement, Nationalist China's Premier Yu Kuohwa offered sanctuary to the people of Hong Kong, who, he said, were being forced "into a slave system of Communist totalitarianism...
...could not have come at a better time for Giscard. Since leaving the presidency he has watched his support slip away to other center-right politicians, first to Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac and lately to Raymond Barre, each of whom had served as Giscard's Premier. The former President has not scored well in recent opinion polls, trailing both Barre and Chirac as well as Simone Veil, a former Giscard Cabinet Minister and now a French member of the European Parliament. Last week's victory was important for Giscard, according to Political Writer Jean-Marie Benoist, because...