Word: communists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tentative SALT pact was reached during two days of talks at the State Department. Vance will fly to Geneva Dec. 20 for a final two-day session with his opposite number, Andrei Gromyko. Barring hitches, the two men will prepare for a summit meeting between Jimmy Carter and Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, probably in Washington during the week...
...Shah and the U.S. alike, have been stirring the broth in Iran. But they neither cooked the broth nor lit the fire under it. True, the KGB has a big station in Tehran. True, some Iranian leftists have been trained by the Palestinians. But the inescapable fact is that Communist and Arab agitation do not begin to explain the extent of opposition to the Shah, and there fore do not begin to justify a superpower confrontation...
...democracy.' I asked, to do you mean by democracy?' and they said, 'We're trying to work out just what democracy is. We want freedom of speech, and we want to elect our own leaders.' I asked them, 'Does that mean that the Communist Party is going to be voted out of office?' There were great howls of laughter and a shout...
...experts, his various ailments may include gout, leukemia, emphysema and a heart condition. But whatever the current status of his health, the Soviet Union's President and party chief last week demonstrated that he is still firmly in control at the Kremlin. In a shuffle of top-level Communist Party jobs, he elevated one of his staunches! allies to the 13-member ruling Politburo, gave the boot to a prominent nonloyalist and further consolidated his hold on the country's decision-making apparatus...
...years served in effect as Brezhnev's chief of staff and virtual alter ego. He is a member of the so-called Moldavian Clan, the group of Soviet apparatchiks who hitched their 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...