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...echelons of the party secretariat. In Moscow, key Communist Party officials from the Soviet Union's 15 republics were summoned for a three-day conference on political and administrative problems. Also trying to straighten out the ideological mess was Leonid Ilyichev, Soviet propaganda boss, who demanded a "decisive cleanup of remnants of the personality cult" and reported that some officials will "stick to the viewpoint that Stalin was a theoretical...
Nkrumah's cleanup is only a cover-up for Ghana's woes. Paced by left-wing extremists, Ghana is racing toward dictatorship and bankruptcy. Opposition to the regime has become explosive. Last week bomb blasts shattered Osagyefo's 1½ times life-size statue outside Parliament...
This newspaper ad, printed a month ago in the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and paid for out of the pockets of a Harlem school staff, touched it off. The teachers begged for a cleanup of their rat-and cockroach-infested building, protesting against "sagging walls, unsanitary toilets, leaking roof, refrigerator temperatures in the winter and oven-like sweltering during spring." By last week that appeared to be a rough description of many New York City schools, and four sets of investigators were looking into far-reaching corruption in the most colossal, colossally troubled school system in the nation...
Instead, Hoxha went home to start his own kind of cleanup. He ordered Nikita Khrushchev's picture removed from all public buildings in Albania and replaced with pictures of Stalin. Russian personnel at the Soviet submarine base at Saseno on the Adriatic are constantly spied upon; Soviet pilots at the Albanian airfields under their control cannot get transport off the base. A month ago, two government officials were arrested and charged with having passed Albanian state secrets to the Russians-the first civil servants in any Communist country known to have been persecuted for collaboration with the "Socialist motherland...
...markets (see BUSINESS) was a result of the world's distrust of Kennedy's avowed economic policies, he said. "He's been up three times," cried Nixon to the baseball-conscious Pittsburghers. "He's struck out three times, and now he wants to be the cleanup hitter!" The campaign, said he, "is beginning to run in a great tide in our direction...