Word: premiership
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...continuity of the Crown and, in our particular case, the Queen's sheer hard work and deep grasp of every kind of national and international problem. You have an audience every week, lasting about an hour. She sometimes floors you-did floor me very early in my premiership-by referring to a Cabinet committee paper that she had read overnight and that I was saving for the weekend. I felt like some boy who had failed his examination. In Queen Elizabeth's case, she is not critical or quizzical but very active, and you are explaining...
...first time in the 18 years since Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic swept to power, his followers no longer controlled the premiership in France. Giscard handed on the title to a highly respected but apolitical economist, Raymond Barre, thus making it clear that the President intended to keep all the reins of power firmly in his own hands. That was quite in keeping with the tradition of the Gaullist "presidential regime." But Giscard could count on unflagging support only from the 121 members of his tiny Independent Republican Party and its centrist allies, while the Gaullists still control...
...reaction was checked during Dr. Mossadegh's premiership (1951-53), when the mass movement gained momentum once more around the issue of nationalizing the foreign oil monopolies. But the CIA moved in and mobilized all the reactionaries, the fascists of the Reza Shah era, and the coup of 1953 put an end to democracy...
...collective leadership." If Brezhnev were to retire in the near future, his titular successor would probably be Politburo Member Andrei Kirilenko, 69, an old Brezhnev crony, who has acted for Brezhnev during his recent illnesses. Kiril Mazurov, 61, at present Kosygin's standin, is expected to inherit the premiership. Potential second-stage succes sors to Brezhnev's job include such relative youngsters as Fyodor Kulakov, 58, who supervises agriculture for the par ty, and Konstantin Katushev, 48, the Party Secretary in charge of keeping East European parties in line...
...said appointment of Hua over Teng seems to indicate that Chairman Mao Tse-tung is still very much in power and that China is not going back to the leftist principles of the cultural revolution, because Hua does not represent those principles. "Hau is a front runner for the premiership," he added...