Word: prime
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...choose a Woman of the Year instead? Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is my proposal...
...trip to the U.S. this fall, Ireland's Prime Minister Jack Lynch sounded like a crusader. He denounced American supporters of the Irish Republican Army and castigated "evil men of violence" for prolonging the bloodshed in the North. As it turned out, that was Lynch's valedictory. Last week, in a surprise move, he abruptly resigned after 13 years as leader of the Fianna Fáil Party and a total of nine years as Prime Minister. His successor: Health and Social Welfare Minister Charles Haughey, 54, a wealthy accountant with pronounced republican sympathies...
...major Cabinet posts, Haughey (pronounced Hah-he) won with the votes of Fianna Fáil M.P.s from the traditionally republican counties in the West and on the Ulster border. His wife Maureen's father was Sean Lemass, a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising and a former Prime Minister. Haughey's climb to party leadership was interrupted in 1970 when he was tried, and acquitted, in a Dublin court on charges of running guns to the I.R.A. Lynch promptly sacked him as Finance Minister. Though he rejoined the Cabinet after Lynch's 1977 reelection, the gunrunning...
...Leader Leon Sullivan. Ford was among the first firms to recognize black unions. Black anti-apartheid organizers have warned that the strike is the first shot in a new offensive against the white-ruled state. The target: multinational firms that do business in the country. The aim: to undermine Prime Minister P.W. Botha's strategy for winning the allegiance of the "black elite" of relatively highly paid skilled workers by giving them a greater share of South Africa's prosperity...
...Prime Minister has announced proposals for sweeping reforms of the racial-classification laws known as petty apartheid. Besides authorizing companies to negotiate with black unions, Botha has proposed the "improvement" of statutes that forbid interracial sex and marriage and make certain public facilities off limits to blacks. While these contemplated steps have won the applause of business leaders, they have not done much as yet to satisfy the 20 million blacks. There has been no change in the white minority government's long-range plan of dividing South Africa into a "constellation" of nominally independent states, in which blacks...