Word: premiership
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...track is Li Peng, 57, considered the man most likely to succeed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. A Soviet-trained engineer and a technocrat who once headed China's nuclear-energy program, Li became one of the country's four Vice Premiers two years ago. His principal rival for the premiership is Vice Premier Tian Jiyun, 56. Tian's main credential is that he helped to run Sichuan province for ten years as deputy to Zhao...
...tried to ensure that his reforms will outlast him by weeding out opponents or gently moving them to the sidelines. In 1981 he eased out Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng, Mao's choice for the succession, and installed in Hua's place General Secretary Hu Yaobang. The premiership, which Hua also held, went to Zhao Ziyang, the former governor of Sichuan. Last July, Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, who had missed no opportunity in recent years to reaffirm "the purity of Communism," was ousted from his post. Deng Xiaoping has defanged other neo-Maoists, or "whateverists" (so called because...
DIED. Tage Erlander, 84, Prime Minister of Sweden from 1946 to 1969, the longest premiership ever in a modern Western democracy; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Huddinge, Sweden. A little-known former encyclopedia editor and Cabinet member, Erlander barely squeaked through his election to the top post of Sweden's long-dominant Social Democratic Party but gradually won critics over with his astute leadership and folksy style. He led his nation into a period of economic boom and toward achievement of full employment and cradle-to-grave welfare -- goals that his successors found more elusive in a less robust...
DIED. Giuseppe Pella, 79, Italian economist who rose from sharecropper's son to the premiership, and who helped guide his country's economic policy for nearly three decades; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rome. Resolutely antiCommunist, Pella served as Premier during a critical five-month period in 1953-54 when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry...
...gaining from the scandal, however, is the Socialist. Its ebullient leader, Bettino Craxi, who tried and failed in 1979 to form a government, is hoping that President Pertini, also a Socialist, will give him another chance to try to end the Christian Democrats' 35-year monopoly on the premiership. The country's political fate thus depends on the President, who, at 84, is one of the few politicians in Italy who enjoys general trust and respect. After last week's stunning revelations, it was no wonder that one Italian weekly headlined its editorial: ST. PERTINI, SAVE...