Word: convenees
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For Milos Jakes, the beginning of the end came early last summer. In a series of private exchanges between the Czechoslovak Communist Party leader and Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers, the Soviet President made clear that his own internal situation demanded a repudiation of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. If...
Even then, Jakes resisted internal party pressure to convene an emergency session of the Central Committee. "It wasn't just the Central Committee; it was the regional party officials who were shouting for it," says Antonin Mlady, a factory foreman and member of the newly formed Politburo. Finally the Politburo...
The party's policy-making Central Committee was to convene today to discuss further changes in the leadership, and state-run television promised "important personnel decisions." The session is expected to run until Friday.
HARVARD is perfectly willing to convene committees and issue reports to correct its pathetically low proportion of minority and women faculty. Unfortunately, it has a poor track record for following up on its pronouncements and posturing with concrete, sustained actions.
Communications back in Washington were not much better, in part because the Bush Administration did not follow a crisis-management practice from the Reagan era: immediately convene the senior deputies of the Defense and State Departments, the CIA and the National Security Council to compare information. Moreover, Bush, a former...