Word: premiership
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clear. Courageously defying continuing riots, the strong-willed Premier kept the Diet in session until the vital moment at week's end when the revised Security Treaty at last achieved ratification. But from sources within his own squabbling party came word that Kishi would have to resign his premiership by autumn at the latest, might well be compelled to quit long before that (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...finished. Against him were ranged the Socialists, the Communists, the hot-eyed Zengaku-ren students. Every Tokyo newspaper, except the English-language Japan Times, called for his scalp. In his own faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party, knives were being sharpened as the politicos dreamed of artfully seizing the premiership-just as Kishi himself had captured the post three years before...
...down last week, Huh argued that as Rhee's appointee (he had just returned to the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary), he should resign, too. Persuaded to stay on as caretaker chief of state, he insists that he will not be a candidate for either the presidency or the premiership...
...comparative quiescence, Nasser plainly wanted to follow an aggressively Arab-nationalist line in the Middle East. To do this, he was quite prepared to hot things up against Jordan and to make life miserable for Jordan's Premier Hazza Majali, 40, a sophisticated moderate who, before taking the premiership last spring, privately approached Nasser to assure himself of Cairo's benevolence. Now Majali found himself thunderously denounced by "Voice of the Arabs" as "a notorious old imperialist stooge." Not yet attacking King Hussein by name, Nasser himself charged last week in a Syrian speech that "the Amman rulers...