Word: apparatchik
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Among Bahro's sympathetic listeners in East Germany was a high-level Communist bureaucrat who was moved to compose a laudatory article for the West German weekly Der Spiegel. The anonymous apparatchik declared that "Bahro's courage has earned him an honorable place in the history of the German workers' movement." Other officials were scarcely in agreement. Indeed, Bahro's broadcast has infuriated the East German leadership, which is determined to stamp out nonconformity, ranging from the manifest heresy of Bahro's book to mildly subversive rock-'n'-roll lyrics. Along with prison...
...Soviet President's parade. The crowds of schoolchildren and workers dutifully turned out by President Julius Nyerere for visiting celebrities had wildly cheered the fatigue-clad revolutionary from Havana a few days before. They could barely muster enough enthusiasm to wave their little flags for the aging (74) apparatchik from Moscow...
...make matters even worse for the Russians, a cost-conscious Moscow apparatchik decided that, though the Soviets would donate the statue-a duplicate already stands in a Vientiane park -the Laotians would have to transport it through the countryside to Luang Prabang. Miffed by such commissar chintziness, the Laotians have not bothered to move Luang Prabang's bronze statue out of storage in Vientiane...
...apparatchik White House guardians cherished secrecy and told Nixon only what he wanted to hear...
Mystery Man. In sharp contrast, East German Party Boss Honecker, 61, is something of a mystery man even to his own countrymen, who know of him dimly only as the perfect apparatchik...