Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students' modest calls for more democracy and less corruption not only confronted the leadership with fundamental questions about China's future direction but also created an opening for political jockeying. According to one theory, Zhao, 69, the leader reputedly most willing to adopt more open politics, took advantage of the situation to ask for greater authority. From Deng, Zhao reportedly sought the power to grant some of the students' demands. Sensing an attempt at a power play, Deng refused...
...election was over: $2.4 million went to incumbents after last Nov. 9. Senate Finance chairman Lloyd Bentsen collected the most PAC money -- $2.4 million -- demonstrating that he didn't really need to organize that $10,000 breakfast club. Richard Gephardt, Tom Foley's probable replacement as Democratic majority leader, led House members with $610,107. Agriculture Committee member Bill Emerson followed with $579,478, Tom Foley with $575,086, and minority leader Robert Michel with $555,340. Banking Committee member David Dreier, New York's Stephen Solarz and the ever prosperous Dan Rostenkowski all have more than $1 million...
Adding yet more fire to the proceedings was the reappearance of Boris Yeltsin, the crusty, populist former leader of Moscow's Communist Party. Earlier, he had failed to win a seat in the new Supreme Soviet, and that, it | seemed, was the end of his thrust for position. But then Deputy Alexei Kazannick, an obscure university professor from Siberia, rose and announced that he would relinquish his place to Yeltsin. As applause rang through the hall, Gorbachev watched impassively from the raised tribunal before he told the hushed assembly, "In principle, I support such a proposal...
Yeltsin got the seat -- and lost no time in pursuing his favorite themes. Sounding very much like the leader of the opposition, he charged that Gorbachev's recent self-criticism "did not absolve him of responsibility for the failure of his reforms." Punching away at the party apparatus and its privileges, he urged that the "word nomenklatura" -- a reference to the 3 million or so holders of top jobs allocated by the party -- "be dropped from our lexicon." Yeltsin also called for election of a new Central Committee and demanded that the President submit to an annual vote of confidence...