Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Voices. It was hard to believe that in five days the 133 members of the Central Committee failed to take up such a pertinent topic as the spreading ferment of discontent in the universities. In Kiev and Azerbaijan, reported the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, students were in an "unhealthy state of mind," and at the Leningrad Technological Institute they indulged in "brash and demagogic remarks" that showed "an effort to ignore completely the undoubted gains of Soviet culture." In Moscow, where university students openly admitted listening to Western radio broadcasts, the youthful audience at a Lenin Library lecture walked...
...remedied, agreed the Communist magazines Kommunist and Party Life, was the tendency of many professors to duck the searching political questions thrown at them by their students. No one, however, dared to point out that professors could scarcely be expected to commit themselves at a time when even the Central Committee of the Communist Party flagrantly evaded public comment on anything more controversial than steel quotas...
...months China's Red bosses had been emphasizing the dangers of "great-nation chauvinism," i.e., rigid Soviet rule of other Communist nations, and they had expressed sympathy for Poland's demands for greater independence. Last week, however, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party did an about-face, announced that while great-nation chauvinism was still a problem, "it is also necessary to overcome nationalist tendencies in smaller countries...
...blame for these deplorable tendencies on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. And when it came to pinpointing the nature of Tito's heresy, the Chinese Communists did not hesitate to make a charge that no Russian leader currently dares to make in public. "In our opinion," said the Central Committee, "Stalin's mistakes take second place to his achievements . . . [Tito] took up a wrong attitude when he set up so-called Stalinism, the Stalinist course and Stalinist elements as objects of attack . . . This can only lead to a split in the Communist movement...
Many a costly hope was placed in Central America, spurred by Union Oil Co.'s discovery in Costa Rica last September of the first oil ever found in quantity between Mexico and the South American mainland. That well quickly flooded with salt water, but Union will drill two more, and Costa Rica is enacting a liberal oil code. Because the Costa Rican discovery was right on the border of Panama, which already had an inviting oil law, six U.S. firms hurried there. All of Panama has been let out on exploratory concessions, and three test wells drilled...