After two years of work, without modern hydraulic machinery, it was officially opened by then Prime Minister Harold MacMillan.
It was called a "stunt that has become a farce" by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown but a few, including Fraser Nelson of the Spectator, believed he was was doing it for all the right reasons.
And this for a man who as a young officer back in the 1950s was dubbed by the then prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and later by others, as an inveterate liar.
He was overruled by the then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and a more hawkish chief-of-staff.
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On Mr Berlusconi's own admission, it was because he was asked to by the then prime minister, Bettino Craxi.
The paper said he referred to a 1981 attack ordered by then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin that destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq.
The football club's plan for a new stadium at Copthall was approved by the council in 2001, but was rejected by then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.
At the time, victims were pressing for an apology from the British government, which ultimately came to be delivered by the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, in February last year.
"Barnet FC's proposals for Copthall Stadium were approved by the council's planning committee but overturned by the then Secretary of State, " she said, referring to a plan for a 10, 000-seat stadium in 2001, which was rejected by then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.
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Known to his supporters as the Lion of Punjab, Mr. Sharif was initially supported by the Pakistani military and intelligence establishment that helped him defeat the left-wing PPP, then led by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in the 1990 elections.
Opposed by India's then prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the arrangement has proved remarkably effective.
Both sides signed the agreement Monday, which was reached in principle on Saturday, fine-tuned on Sunday, and then approved by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
In her interview, she defended 1701 by claiming that unlike then prime minister Ehud Barak's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, 1701 gave Israel legitimacy for striking Hizbullah in the future.
The reality is that the reforms of the early 1990s were pushed through by his then boss, Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, who put up all his political capital to get them through.
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He said that while the panel found the language used in government papers at the time was "insensitive, " it found no evidence that the government, then headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, tried to conceal the truth of what had happened.
Daniel Seidemann, a lawyer and Jerusalem civic activist, says the route of the wall is intended to obliterate the memory of Bill Clinton's proposal, accepted at the time of Camp David in 2000 by Israel's then prime minister, Ehud Barak, that Jerusalem's Jewish suburbs be part of Israel, and its Palestinian suburbs become part of a Palestinian state.
However, she was soon contacted by Gerrit Zalm, then deputy prime minister of the Netherlands, who urged her to run for parliament.
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He wounded Italy's then prime minister by summarily dismissing any idea that Italy was some kind of kindred Mediterranean spirit, to be jointly mollified on the way to euroland.
But a fresh decree was issued soon afterwards by Alexey Bolshakov, then first deputy prime minister.
Mr Kenyatta beat then-Prime Minister Raila Odinga by 50.07% to 43.28% in the March election.
He had, after all, been appointed deputy prime minister by Dr Mahathir and then inherited the premiership without an election.
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The pressure will be on Jerusalem to agree to all the concessions--and then some--misguidedly made by Prime Minister Ehud Barak a year ago.
And if investors were concerned about Mr Kudrin's departure, then they were far from mollified by the man Prime Minister Putin appointed to succeed him.
Within weeks, Kevin Rudd, then the Prime Minister, had been deposed by the right wing of his own party.
Merkel's government did the world an additional favor in 2009, amid the financial crisis, by rejecting calls from the International Monetary Fund, then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Obama, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the same dominant Keynesian consensus to join the global spending party.
When the job came up in 1994, Mr Gonzalez, then Spain's prime minister, was pressed by Mr Kohl to take it.
In the latest general election, in 2005, the then prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, challenged the system by appealing directly to voters.
The squad then moved on to the Moncloa Palace to be greeted by Prime Minister Zapatero, who singled out match-winner Iniesta for special praise.
The government of the day would get a kicking at local elections and the prime minister would then try to distract media attention by carrying out a reshuffle.
"First the nation, then the party, then myself, " Ms Schavan said, citing words used by former state prime minister Erwin Teufel.
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