Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kevin Kline gives an outstanding performance as Paul, a simple man lured by Central Park West trappings and an L.A. life-style before he sees through the plastic of his own costume. Roxanne Hart's Susan develops beautifully from the first day on the beach in her tight pink bathing suit to her last afternoon with Paul...
Byrne worked feverishly to line up votes for Burke at last week's meeting of the Democratic Central Committee, which would endorse one of the two rivals. Telephones jangled all over Chicago, and if arms could not be twisted, ears could certainly be reddened. Said a longtime city hall watcher: "She created the kind of atmosphere where everyone knows that vengeance can be exacted. She doesn't have to threaten. They know what the-message is: 'Do it my way or else...
Gueiler is trying a more workable approach. Last week she announced a package of tough new policies. Among them: a stiff hike in the price of gasoline and other fuels and a 25% peso devaluation. But her tough new plan provoked a warning from the heads of the powerful Central Labor Federation, which had sponsored a general strike that helped propel Natusch from office. Workers, declared Federation Leader Juan Lechin Oquendo, "will not accept economic measures that affect their income." If Gueiler's new proposals are carried out, he threatened, his followers were ready to "struggle in the streets...
...world's most gerontocratic elites is getting older rather than younger. Meeting in Moscow last week, the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party elevated First Deputy Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, 74, from alternate to full membership in the Politburo, thereby raising the average age of that 14-member body from 69.3 to 69.6 years...
Tikhonov's place as one of nine non-voting alternate members of the Politburo was taken by a relatively young unknown, Mikhail Gorbachev, 48, who for the past year has been the Central Committee's secretary in charge of agriculture. Gorbachev, apparently, was not blamed for a disastrous 1979 grain harvest. Largely because of bad weather, Brezhnev announced, this year's crop amounted to only 179 million tons-47 million tons short of the target, and the worst harvest since 1975. The U.S.S.R. has already contracted to buy 25 million tons of American wheat and corn...