Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were any differences within the party, they did not show up in the Central Committee's communiqué. It disclosed that the oft-postponed third Five-Year Plan is under way at last, and commended Mao for his "brilliant" policies. As for the purge, the committee declared that "an invigorating revolutionary atmosphere prevails in the whole country, and the situation is one of a new all-round leap forward emerging." If things seemed to be a bit chaotic as a result, what did it matter? "Dare to make revolution and be good at revolution," cried Peking...
...since May Day had he given a major speech. He had not taken visible leadership of last month's Guantánamo crisis; admittedly, he had signed the communiqué charging that the U.S. was planning an invasion, but he left it to his brother Raul to preside at the funeral of a Cuban soldier killed in a shooting in cident on the Guantanamo border. And where was Fidel, an inveterate hurricane chaser, when Hurricane Alma hit the island? There was no evidence that he was even near the disaster areas (nor was there evidence that...
...problem. Kosygin counseled Nasser not to risk a stoppage of the U.S. Food for Peace program-Washington is still sitting tight on this year's $150 million worth of grain-because Russia simply cannot afford to pick up the grocery bill. As a result, the joint Russo-Egyptian communiqué issued at the end of Kosygin's eight-day trip was notably mild in its criticism of U.S. activities...
Secret Huddle. Scarcely had the speech clattered through the Kremlin telex machines when Russia's Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was airborne for a visit to Bucharest. For three days he huddled with Ceausescu in secret talks. Beyond the expectable communiqué concerning "subjects of mutual interest," outsiders could only guess at the real substance of the conversations. After all, there were plenty of signs that Rumania was taking an active role in European Communist affairs-a role that could only annoy Moscow. Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer was in Geneva ostensibly for a "cure"-but possibly in some connection with...
...jejune Joyce; at his best he generates images like the navel of the demiurge itself. And the images reflect ideas. Gass is a trained thinker, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, and in this fable he enlivens the weary old war between good and evil with curt communiqués and rakingly comic crossfire...