Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviets agreed to turn over the premiership to Nagy, a walrus- mustachioed intellectual; the hated Gero was replaced by Janos Kadar. Nagy tried to slow the revolution, but the street crowds kept applying pressure. He agreed to take noncommunists into his government. Going further, he formally asked the Soviets to leave, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and asked the U.N. to guarantee his country's neutrality. On Oct. 29, it was announced that the Soviets had begun withdrawing from Budapest...
...Thatcher had a political son, he would be John Major, 47, who has been on the fast track ever since she made him Foreign Secretary in July 1989 and, the following October, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Though he has had relatively little Cabinet experience, Major is gunning for the premiership with the apparent blessing of his mentor...
Three major reforms would break the deadlock by strengthening the premiership, reducing the number of smaller parties and increasing the accountability of politicians...