Word: czars
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...last major change or attempted change in Russian government came in 1971, over six decades ago. That change came a decade after the 1905 revolution, and two decades after the attempted assassination of the czar in 1881. Five and a half decades earlier the Decembrist Movement of 1825 took place. Thus the current system has gone longer without an attempted radical change than any time within the last two centuries. This is not meant to say that a change or an attempt at one will of necessity occur, but it does suggest the magnitude of the pressures for change which...
...visitation by some brigadier general who tried to boost morale by telling us that we are bringing democracy to this green and peasant land. That was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. I felt like telling His Belligerence that what this country needs is a good five-cent czar. My tentmate, Major Frank Burns, is even more amusing, if you get your laughs from psychotic paranoia complicated by a spine-wide streak of yellow. He thinks we're here to save Korea from the Koreans, and that when the war is over Seoul will be colonized...
...Johnson," says Journalist Robert Caro. "I knew he was going to be shrewd and tough and ruthless, but that was all right." Caro, 47, a former investigative reporter, should have known better. The Power Broker, his 1,200-page study of New York's urban-development and highway czar Robert Moses, so unsettled its subject that he issued a rebuttal to Caro's many allegations. Despite objections, the book won a Pulitzer Prize. In The Path to Power, the 882-page first of three volumes on L.B.J., Caro argues, not always convincingly, that the 36th President illegally...
...wise as his baseball counterpart, Marvin Miller, or as old, Garvey, 42, has been taken as a lightweight villain around the sport for twelve years. "Garvey wants power," says Gene Klein, who owns the San Diego Chargers. "He's trying to put himself in the position of czar. He fell on his face before, and he'll fall on his face again." Knowing his is a face that does not exactly warm the cockles of football fans' hearts, Garvey has frequently turned over the podium to Players Association President Gene Upshaw of the Los Angeles Raiders, Stan...
Vice President Joe B. Wyatt is even further removed. He's on his way out, headed for the president's chair at Vanderbilt University. No word yet on who will replace him as the czar of administration, but two of Wyatt's biggest responsibilities--the University's controversial power plant and real estate operation--will have to be the handled in the interim by subordinates...