Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollar: We are fully cooperating with President Carter's dollar-defense measures through the swap mechanism [through which the central banks of Japan, West Germany and Switzerland extend the U.S. credit to buy yen, marks and Swiss francs]. I believe this swap system should be enlarged to make it even more effective...
...careers to Brezhnev's when he served as first secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party in the early '50s. Chernenko headed the Moldavian party's propaganda department. After Brezhnev succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party chief in 1964, his protege first became a candidate member of the Central Committee, then, five years later, earned a full-fledged slot. In 1976 Chernenko was elected a secretary of that 287-member body, and 14 months ago he was named an alternate (nonvoting) Politburo member. He was frequently observed deep in conversation with Brezhnev at public functions, only to slip into...
...thoughts have ever differed from Brezhnev's on any issue, he has kept quiet about it; one Western diplomat in Moscow refers to him as Brezhnev's "paper shuffler." Nonetheless, Chernenko now ranks fourth in the party hierarchy, after Brezhnev, Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 76, and Central Committee Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 72. Chernenko now must be considered as a possible successor to his patron, or at least as a behind-the-curtain bossmaker in a post-Brezhnev...
...much to do with his lackluster performance as the Politburo member with specific responsibility for Soviet industry. Since the tenth Five-Year Plan began three years ago, the Soviets have placed special stress on increasing industrial productivity and technological modernization. At a plenum session of the party's Central Committee last week, Brezhnev complained about continuing industrial snags and bottle' necks. He singled out "central economic bodies, ministries and departments" as particularly responsible for the inefficiency...
...meeting of parliament and the Central Committee, he spoke out against "interference from the outside" and observed, intriguingly, that his country "traditionally had friendly relations" with many NATO countries, some of which have "helped us in our struggle against foreign domination." He was frequently interrupted with applause and chants: "Ceauşescu, we will overcome...