Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occupied areas with that of Israel. They also scored his plans to settle Israelis in strategic areas, such as the Golan Heights, and his quasi-annexation of occupied territory through the gradual spread of Israeli law. Deputy Premier Yigal Alton, Dayan's chief rival for eventual premiership, joined in the attack on the Defense Minister's economic integration policy but, fearing a vote on the issue, walked out of the meeting before the argument ended...
...push Congress toward the socialist goals ordained by earlier leaders, including her father Jawaharlal Nehru. But she has run into opposition from disapproving party right-wingers, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, her sole rival in the 1966 and 1967 party elections for the premiership. The right-wingers feel that Indira's all-out socialist policies will severely damage private industry and hurt the national economy; most public-sector industries have proved less efficient and profitable than privately owned ones...
Moise Kapenda-or "beautiful Moses"-Tshombe took an estimated $20 million into his second exile, much of it collected through bribes and kickbacks. Behind he left a checkered legend. Older Congolese remember the prosperous times of his premiership; the young now revere Lumumba the leftist and revile his enemy. Whites still recall the man so cultured and well-spoken that many colonials considered him a "black European." But because Moise Tshombe relied to such an extent on white advice and white arms, his name is no longer beautiful in much of black Africa. Indeed, like that of Norwegian Vidkun Quisling...
...Pompidou had switched careers again and was chief administrative officer of the gilt-edged Paris Rothschild Bank, a position to which he rose in typical meteoric style four years after joining the company as an obscure subsidiary director. Still unknown politically, he accepted De Gaulle's offer of the premiership in 1962. Opposition politicians put him down as having "the confidence of the king," as one of them sneered, but Pompidou soon emerged in possession of much more. He became a first-rate parliamentary debater, and on television he came through as a skillful advocate who could use his eyebrows...
...reminisced, Tun Razak was attending another party, this one in honor of his 47th birthday. There, the most impressive of the gifts Tun received was an announcement by the Tunku reiterating his determination not to stand for office after the next election - which leaves Tun Razak heir to the premiership. Next day Tun Razak got another gift: a biography of Winston Churchill. The life story of the great British statesman was given to the Malaysian statesman by Time...