Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change in the country's mandatory retirement law that permitted him to remain in the army, and thus in the commander in chief's position, past his 60th birthday. As a result, San's access to the top military job - and with it perhaps an eventual premiership - seemed blocked...
...fact, Hua has for months appeared to be losing out in his contest for power with Deng, TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein reported. Last September Deng elbowed him out of the country's premiership to make way for younger, more pragmatic government leaders. In Deng's controlled press, articles indirectly accused Hua of blocking the dismissal of venal provincial officials, opposing economic reforms and acting like an old-style palace eunuch who rose to power by toadying to the Emperor-in this case, Hua's onetime patron...
Meanwhile, there seemed little likelihood of the political unity that the memorandum seemed to call for. The personal animosity between Demirel and the intellectual Ecevit, who have exchanged the premiership six tunes since 1974, seems to rule out a so-called grand coalition alliance between Demirel's right-of-center Justice Party and Ecevit's left-of-center Republican People's Party. Yet there was one sign of a benefit from the memorandum. As the Assembly last week began discussing tougher antiterrorism legislation, Ecevit announced that his party would support the package with only minor changes...