Word: ruler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chou En-lai came in 1920, some 70 years after Karl Marx left Paris for London and eight years after a young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...
...country is an international pariah, isolated from much of the world and at odds with both superpowers. Its ruler is an 86-year-old cleric who lives in near seclusion. For almost six years, it has been mired in a grinding and inglorious war that seems to drag on without end. Reduced to using 20-year- old technology against an enemy that boasts six times as much combat aircraft and four times as much artillery, it has lost an estimated 250,000 lives and still spends $7 billion a year to keep up the fight...
...must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 p.m. presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press. White House stage managers have accordingly become adept at finding appropriate soapboxes and visual backdrops for the President, a series of Potemkin villages not to deceive a ruler but to catch the restless eye of his subjects. When Reagan worries about Republican defections in the farm belt, the presidential podium and the press corps are flown out to a state fair in Illinois, where he can speak against a backdrop of hay. Should there be a show...
Though Bush had hoped to visit Morocco's King Hassan II, who two weeks ago hosted a surprise meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the Vice President was rebuffed. The Moroccan ruler apparently did not want to create the impression that his diplomatic initiative had been an American invention. In Jordan, Bush met with King Hussein, who earlier dismissed the Vice President's call for a Hussein-Peres meeting. Hussein had pointed out that Jordan's long-standing policy is to reject such negotiations unless held within the context of an international peace conference. Bush did not bring...
Nearly nine years have passed since the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made his famous trip to Jerusalem, a moment of high drama that led to a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. At least one other Arab ruler, King Hussein of Jordan, is believed to have held secret talks over the years with high- ranking Israeli officials. But not until last week did a second Arab leader acknowledge publicly that he had met face to face with a head of the Jewish state...