Word: primes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister of the Vietnamese-sponsored regime, is ready to share power with Sihanouk but not with the Khmer Rouge -- and for good reason: whether or not they are allowed into a coalition, they will certainly try to keep their camps and arms caches. Some level of fighting would go on. It is a question of whether the Khmer Rouge are granted government portfolios and political legitimacy along with their military strength. Attending the Paris conference last week, Secretary of State James Baker said, "The United States strongly believes that the Khmer Rouge should play no role in Cambodia...
...years, Britons have been regaled with mock letters like this from Denis Thatcher, the husband of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to his mythical chum Bill in the satirical London magazine Private Eye. The pungent missives are all the more outrageous as they seem to capture Denis' views and ripe turn of phrase with uncanny accuracy...
Following its humiliating defeat in last month's upper-house elections, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party groped for ways to restore its scandal-ridden reputation. Last week the majority of the party threw its support behind a single candidate for Prime Minister, Toshiki Kaifu, 58, but it is doubtful whether his selection has done much to restore the party's honor...
...would select a new leader by ballot rather than through the kind of back-room parleying that brought Noboru Takeshita and Sousuke Uno to power. While party members nominated three candidates, senior power brokers reverted to habit and backed Kaifu, a faceless and seemingly malleable Diet member, as Prime Minister...
...politicians had their own Academy Awards, the statuette for cliff-hanger scenarios would certainly go to Poland. Last week the Sejm, the governing lower house of Parliament, tackled the task of electing a Prime Minister to head the new government. President Wojciech Jaruzelski chose Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak for the post. But Kiszczak ran into such fierce resistance from both the Solidarity opposition and some legislators allied with the Communists that frantic politicking continued right down to the wire. Communist leaders pressured their rebellious allies within the United Peasant Alliance, offering important positions and threatening to retract privileges. The tactics...