Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOSCOW--President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other members of the ruling Politburo failed to win unanimous support as Communist Party deputies in a new Soviet legislature, Pravda reported Sunday...
Providing unusual insight into divisions in the policy-making Central Committee, the Communist Party newspaper said of 641 Central Committee members and alternates who voted Thursday, 12 were opposed to Gorbachev...
...Communist Party and some other public organizations are entitled to directly choose 750 of the 2250 members of the new Congress of People's Deputies. The other 1500, representing territorial districts, will be chosen March 26 in nationwide elections...
...only alliance in history that has occupied or invaded not enemy territory but that of its own member states: East Germany '53, Hungary '56, Czechoslovakia '68. The imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981 was nothing less than a Soviet- backed military coup d'etat within the Communist Party...
...guerrillas sound determined to fight unless a newly elected government proves unexpectedly willing to reopen negotiations. Warns Cirilo: "We have a genuine desire for peace. But that should not be mistaken for weakness." Schafik Jorge Handal, head of the Salvadoran Communist Party and one of the F.M.L.N.'s top five comandantes, agrees. "If the military says no to our plan, then that indicates their intention of defeating us militarily," he says. "That would oblige us to respond, and the product would be a deepening of the war." Roberto, a veteran E.R.P. combatant is more direct: "If the elections are held...