Word: communique
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...only a temporary save; not even the Kremlin wanted to openly defy the groundswell of popular disenchantment with Novotný in Czechoslovakia. Last week the party's 200-man plenum, the Central Committee, met and declared the end for Novotný. Though its communiqué allowed him to "resign" and mechanically praised his accomplishments, the plenum fired Novotný as party leader, the country's most powerful post, leaving him only in the figurehead role of President. Into Novotný's place stepped the man who engineered the ouster. He is Alexander...
...industry-inadvertently involved in last June's Arab-Israeli war-last week issued its first battle communiqués. They were remarkable: rather than having lost money during more-or-less temporary Arab oil embargoes against the U.S., the American companies made comfortable profits...
Elsewhere, in other battles, U.S. corporations reported good and bad results. Among the communiqu...
...communiqué (see box), and in fact the whole conference, was a minor triumph for the U.S. policy of the middle way in Viet Nam. "We set out with modest objectives," said a member of the U.S. delegation, "and I think we achieved them." The principal achievement was to avert a schism between the hard-lining nations on Asia's mainland, South Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam ("The ones in sight of the gallows," as one U.S. aide puts it), and the safer, softer-lining insular nations, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines...
...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution needed a bang, and the announcement of the missile-borne nuclear test filled that need. The test showed that Chinese science is "advancing at even greater speed under the brilliant illumination of Mao Tse-tung's thought," crowed Peking's characteristically pompous communiqu...