Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Provisional President Manuel Urrutia immediately announced his choice of Castro for the premiership. That job normally means head of government under the president, who is chief of state. Castro replaces Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona...
Burma. Three months after able General Ne Win took over the premiership and dismissed the Parliament, the capital city of Rangoon seems a different place. Gone are the huge heaps of filthy garbage that littered the streets, and gone the packs of wild pye-dogs that fed on them. Buildings are getting their first coats of paint since 1941. Night trains are running from Rangoon to Mandalay for the first time in ten years, attesting to greater security in the countryside. Virtually every known Communist agent and subversive has been jailed. Hordes of corrupt, bribetaking political hacks have been replaced...
...political and economic life before the expiration of the special powers he has exercised since last June. Keenly aware that he will lose the right to legislate by simple decree once he is formally inducted as President this week (see below), De Gaulle spent the last days of his premiership grinding out laws so distasteful to France's vested interests that no government of the Fourth Republic had ever dared to adopt them...
Chiang had already pointed to a successor last year by adding the premiership to the other duties of his old comrade-at-arms Vice President Chen Cheng (TIME, July 14). But the Gimo himself intends to keep things in hand by retaining the powerful director-generalship of the Kuomintang Party...
...over his plan to swallow Berlin, after all the buildup and the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev called the first press conference of his premiership. Looking relaxed and chipper, and sporting a glistening gold peace-dove emblem in his lapel, the Soviet boss told 250 reporters in the wood-paneled oval room of the Kremlin's Council of Ministers Building that the notes his government had just sent the U.S., Britain and France were not in "the form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other...