Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berlinguer 's party stands poised for a dreaded role in government...
...resignation to President Giovanni Leone early this week, thus setting the stage for the moment that democratic governments around the world have long dreaded. For the first time since 1947, the powerful Communist Party of Italy, led by Secretary-General Enrico Berlinguer, stood poised to assume a decisive role in the government...
...communiques and claims of both sides in the Parrot's Beak confrontation. Despite an assertion in Washington by presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski that the Viet Nam-Cambodia conflict was a "proxy war" between China and the Soviet Union, neither superpower had in fact taken a direct role in backing an ally and neither appeared eager...
...actual details of his sudden switch remain shrouded in secrecy. Foreign and Filipino experts are convinced that-as one puts it-"the key ingredient was the entry of Disini." Marcos strongly denies this, but there seems to be considerable respect in Manila for Disini's role in influencing some presidential decisions. Jesus J. Vergara, president of Asia Industries Inc., another Disini-owned firm retained by Westinghouse, has boasted: "We leave it to Hermie [Disini] to play golf [with Marcos]. That's his job." According to some accounts in Manila, Disini bragged that Herdis and Asia Industries will bring...
...require the same three-year advance planning as everything else in opera. But Sills is not retiring to write a book (she has done that already) or go on the talk shows (she has her own now). Instead, she will take up a difficult and possibly perilous new role in 1980-co-director of the New York City Opera, the company where she made her reputation and proved that a native-born singer could conquer American opera without the Metropolitan. Sharing the directorship will be the organization's current leader and Sills' mentor, Julius Rudel...