Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstration that took place in Peking's vast T'ien An Men Square two weeks ago. In the weeks ahead, these analysts speculate, the Communist Party leadership will make a concerted effort to create a sense of mass enthusiasm and legitimacy for its policies-most notably the abrupt sacking of Chou En-lai's onetime heir apparent Teng Hsiao-p'ing and the elevation of Security Minister Hua Kuo-feng to Premier and First Vice Chairman of the party...
...board expressed its "strongest displeasure with the abrupt firing" as well as an objection to the method of the dismissal, which it said was "in violation of the minimal standards of due process," thus undermining "confidence in ecclestiastical administration." The entire matter was further exasperated by the replacement of Rev. Msgr. Edward G. Murray as the pastor of St. Paul's with Fr. Boles, the chairman of the investigating committee...
...week in the history of the People's Republic of China. The country's Politburo, apparently meeting in Chairman Mao Tse-tung's private quarters in the Forbidden City, made several crucial changes in the country's leadership. First, the Peking leadership brought to an abrupt climax the intense ideological campaign against the notorious "capitalist reader" Teng Hsiao-p'ing (TIME Cover, Jan. 19), the wily little bureaucrat who only three months ago was considered Chou En-lai's sure successor as Premier. Because of the "counterrevolutionary incident that took place...
...that a huge ransom be paid by the company's big (1975 sales: $2.2 billion) Ohio-based U.S. parent. Instead, the Niehous case brought a new dimension to the political kidnapings that have been plaguing businessmen, particularly in Latin America. Indeed, it led last week to a startlingly abrupt-and arbitrary-government takeover of Owens-Illinois' three glassmaking factories in Venezuela...
...consistent position of Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party during that time, or of the non-interventionist programs of various other factions on the left. But isolationism had no mass constituency among leftists until the Communist Party discovered its historical legitimacy following the Hitler-Stalin Pact. And this abrupt reversal of position by the C.P., so abrupt that it caused a substantial number of defections from the party, was too short-lived to lend itself to consideration as part of a tradition of isolationism among American radicals. As soon as German troops invaded the Soviet Union, in June...