Word: apparatchiks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Munthali, then an apparatchik in the ruling Malawi Congress Party, fled the country in 1964 with a group of dissident Cabinet Ministers. From abroad they organized a movement to oppose the despotic Hastings Kamuzu Banda, then Malawi's Prime Minister and since 1971 President for Life. Munthali, who is in his early 60s, reportedly returned to Malawi in 1965 and was arrested. By some accounts, Munthali was never tried. According to others, he was charged with a firearms offense, served an eleven-year prison term, was immediately detained again when it expired and has been held since without charge...
...starkest contrast is the hurriedly published autobiography of Boris Yeltsin, the charismatic populist who seems more of a cross between Mick Jagger and Huey Long than a veteran apparatchik. His book, as predictably frank as Gromyko's is dour, bounces from biographical anecdotes to a diary of % his successful 1989 election campaign for the new Soviet legislature. The former volleyball star, who despite touches of buffoonery has become a cult hero among Soviet rebels with a cause, struts his arrogance from the schoolyard to Red Square...
...recycled pieces that have aired on CNN earlier in the day. A report on the Soviet elections, for example, began with narration by anchorman Brian Todd, who carefully defined such concepts as perestroika. But then came a report from Moscow correspondent Steve Hurst, who tossed out phrases like "party apparatchik" without further elaboration...
Connery, the actor to whom everyone most eagerly surrenders disbelief, quickly renders the movie's central implausibility plausible. And a man named Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) makes Ramius' mission impossible possible. In a way, Ryan is the Soviet officer's double. A CIA intelligence analyst, he too is an apparatchik who has retained the capacity to think for himself. And he too is a man who embarks on a lonely and perilous course...
...when I was covering Eastern Europe for TIME, I drove from my office in Belgrade to Sofia to write a story about Bulgaria. The situation was none too exciting in that most docile of all the Soviet satellites, but I did get a glimpse of a new breed of apparatchik. The press department of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry arranged an interview with a 34-year-old Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade named Andrei Lukanov. He spoke idiomatic English, kept the party-line claptrap to a merciful minimum and talked candidly about the "shortcomings" of a command economy and even about...