Word: premieres
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Soviet Foreign Minister and First Deputy Premier Andrei Gromyko had said it all before too, and he was no more yielding in private than he had been in public. All very well to talk about flexibility, he said, in effect, but the U.S. is taking unreasonable positions; it would be pointless to resume bargaining until those positions start to change...
...among six politicians who are featured this week in the first of a series of articles on important local and state races. To give readers an unforgettable visual impression of these individuals, many of whom are not nation ally known, TIME has called upon the U.S.'s premier caricaturist, David Levine. This issue contains his depictions of Kunin and DiPrete, along with spidery portraits of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and his challenger, Governor James Hunt...
...pointed Americanism is seeping into the cultural stream too. Right after the Los Angeles Games, ABC broadcast the premier episode of Call to Glory, a new series, set in the early 1960s, about Air Force fighter pilots. Says a network insider: "The campaign to promote
...different face to the world. Far from being backward, it is now one of the most modern and attractive nations in the world. From an economy based on exporting soldiers, the Swiss have diversified to become a provider of expensive manufactured goods as well as the world's premier bankers. If there was ever a nation that could be described as a bastion of capitalism, Switzerland...
Capitalizing on this impulse, Provincial Premier René Lévesque, 62, and his Parti Québécois have always taken separatism as their driving ambition and rallying cry. The party stormed into power in 1976, as teachers, intellectuals and unionists−drawn from among the 5 million French speakers, who predominate among the province's 6 million residents−rallied behind the secessionist cause. Before long the new provincial government had enshrined French as Quebec's only official language and forbidden the use of English-language signs even in predominantly English-speaking neighborhoods. Thus...