Word: documention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lose his temper in public, betrayed little emotion. He made a point of exchanging pleasantries with Politburo member Yegor Ligachev, the de facto leader of the conservative opposition, when Ligachev returned to his seat after delivering a demagogic rebuttal to Gorbachev's platform. When the vote to approve the document was finally taken -- and passed with only one dissenting vote, from populist Boris Yeltsin -- the Soviet leader broke with tradition and invited the 108 candidate members of the Central Committee and more than a hundred guests to join in expressing their views. This time the response was a unanimous show...
...practice an "expression of the party-and-state system of power." The proposed arithmetic had its critics, most notably Ambassador to Poland Vladimir Brovikov, who sarcastically wondered whether "democracy within the party will decline if there are 500 people in the hall instead of the 200 suggested in the document." But Victor Lomin, one of the visiting miners invited to the meeting by Gorbachev, took a different view of the Central Committee: "My first impression was that I was in an old people's home. I think these people can decide absolutely nothing...
...Yuri Prokofiyev, who was a member of the committee revising the platform, reported that the debate last week over property was so intense that "it took hours just to write one sentence." Sometimes the differences appeared to be more semantic than real. Instead of "private" property, for example, the document was amended to read property derived from "individual labor." The new easing of restrictions might allow for the emergence of small, privately owned businesses or permit factories to form their own private production units for the manufacture of, say, tools or farm implements...
...Washington an equally critical State Department document concurred with some of the Asia Watch claims and listed still more abuses, such as raids on universities, loyalty tests and a "massive" disinformation campaign. Asked how the State Department report squared with the Administration's conciliatory approach to Beijing, a White House official said, "The President has often expressed his concern about human rights in China...
Where? George Bush, meet your budget, a good old-fashioned Republican document that unmasks the State of the Union as an exercise in sleight of mouth. As a true reflection of the President's will, Bush's budget barely funds many of the programs that could conform reality to rhetoric, and fairly guts many others...