Word: bureaucrat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flow of information to press and public, only to turn it back on at convenient moments or let it dribble out in calculated leaks. The disclosure of the Pentagon papers serves as a reminder of how much more information-hundreds of millions of pages-remains classified. A Washington bureaucrat can stamp as secret virtually anything he wants...
...commission inquiring into activities under Dubč that are now considered questionable. Loss of party cards has meant loss of livelihood as well. Teachers have had to become taxi drivers; diplomats, hotel clerks; and intellectuals, gas-station attendants. Even the still popular Dubč is now a minor bureaucrat in the Slovak Ministry of Forests...
...member of the Politburo can be voted out of office by the Central Committee, but for that to happen would require a major upheaval. Nor can anyone predict with certainty who will emerge as the next party boss?or when. Perhaps it will be a now faceless regional bureaucrat or young technocrat whose name today is unfamiliar in the West. More likely, it will be someone who is not yet in his 60s but is already positioned in the upper reaches of the power structure. There are four Soviet politicians who fit this description particularly well. Three are the youngest...
...sent it down to Athens for inspection. They even asked to borrow the book we were using-a 1913 edition, now out of print, of The Nomads of the Balkans -promising to return it the next day, but they sent it down to Athens for some American-paid intelligence bureaucrat to examine...
...fitting bureaucratic style, the coronation of "Miss Bureaucrat 1969" last week was followed, a few moments later, by the crowning of "Miss Carbon Copy," her twin sister. Both presided over the presentation of awards for extraordinary bureaucratic finesse. Winners received a gold-painted, potbellied, disheveled bird, sculpted by Boren himself. Among the recipients were ex-Ambassador to Panama and former Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn and John Brayton Redecker, a State Department official and author of CASP: A Systematic Approach to Policy Planning and Analysis in Foreign Affairs. Absent was Vice President Spiro Agnew, tapped for "his contributions...