Word: apparatchiks
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...point. Haig means it when he asserts that he would be a good President, tough and clear-minded on issues ranging from the deficit to arms control. His ideas are, in fact, sophisticated and sensible. Haig knows his chances are dim. He blames the system and the Republican Party "apparatchik" for locking him out. But he believes in himself, and has nothing to lose and much satisfaction to gain by selling that belief to the public...
...athletic Kasparov favors flamboyant attacks and unusual defenses. Karpov, on the other hand, plays the game as though he were dissecting a microchip. In his newly published autobiography, Child of Change, Kasparov claims that he is a living example of the new Soviet glasnost and Karpov is a hidebound apparatchik. Karpov, who became champion by default after Bobby Fischer gave up the crown in 1975, has dismissed these charges as merely "part of prematch psychological warfare...
Afterward the weary opponents shook hands and stayed onstage for several minutes discussing the game. But the two Ks' show is hardly over. In 1990 the glasnost man must defend his title. His opponent? Don't bet against the dour "apparatchik...
...jowly, beetle-browed apparatchik, Yakovlev hardly seems the type to blossom amid the flash and dynamism of the Gorbachev era. Officials in agitprop (agitation and propaganda), his longtime career, rarely end up in top Kremlin jobs. Trained as a teacher, Yakovlev became a professional party worker following combat duty in World War II. After becoming acting head of the party's propaganda department in 1973, he was on the losing side of an obscure ideological dispute. As punishment, he spent ten years as Ambassador to Canada...
...book obviously has high-level support. No apparatchik would have dared authorize it without powerful political backing. Rybakov does not know if Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has seen it or cleared it. "The reason it is being permitted now must be that those on high must have felt it was timely and needed," says Rybakov. "They must have realized that until we have eliminated the consequences of Stalinism in the psychology of our people we cannot move further forward. If we say we wish to live honestly and truthfully, then we must be truthful about the past. We cannot bring...