Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all, the reformist leadership has so far refused to permit the emergence of a genuine opposition party to the Communists. A political organization of liberal nonCommunists, K.A.N., has already signed up more than 20,000 members but takes care to describe it self as a club rather than a party. K.A.N.'s rallies at times take place despite police bans, but the club's sober leaders know that if they overstep the bounds, they may force the government to crack down...
...After 50 years of full control over the minds of the entire country," writes Sakharov, "the leadership seems afraid of even a hint of debate. Yet the only guarantee of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economic development and culture is intellectual free dom and debate." Sakharov charges that censorship has not only killed "the living soul" of Soviet literature, but is stifling fresh ideas in other creative fields as well. He therefore calls for the abolition of Glavlit, the omnipotent censorship department that rules over the printed word in the Soviet Union, and urges its replacement...
...five-man military court took only an hour and a half to complete the trial. Its verdict: Guilty of treason, plotting and falsely espousing the cause of peace in accordance with Communist policy. With that, South Viet Nam last week sentenced to death the entire ten-mem ber leadership of the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces, a group of South Vietnamese intellectuals and professionals formed three months ago with the announced intention of bringing peace to Viet Nam through a coalition government. They were tried in absentia; all of them had slipped away during or after...
Talent Candidates. Because of his conservative party's slim margin of 13 seats in the 250-member chamber, a loss of five or six seats would probably have cost Sato his party leadership and the premiership. Now, with the loss of only two, he has taken firmer control of his party than ever. In a major defeat, Sato's chief opponents, the Socialists, lost at least eight seats. At their expense, gains were made by the small parties, notably the "clean government" Komeito Party (tour seats), which is backed by the Soka Gakkai sect of Buddhists, the Communist...
...days. "Britain is 50 years " behind U.S. the Labor U.S. in labor relations," says U. S. Labor Mediator Theodore W. Kheel, who just returned to Manhattan from a labor relations conference in London. "Any shop steward can call a strike in Britain, and the union's national leadership is powerless to halt...