Word: officialdom
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...magazine's favorite pastime was raking the ranks of West German officialdom, from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on down. No one was shelled more ruthlessly than Franz-Josef Strauss. From the day in 1956 that Strauss took over the Defense Ministry and boasted that Germans would never again play "foot soldiers to the American atomic knights," Augstein and Der Spiegel attacked. The magazine jeered at inconsistencies in Strauss's defense policies. It sneered when Strauss arrogantly pulled rank on a West German cop who stopped the Defense Minister for a minor traffic offense. It accused him of helping...
...Bella saw little of Castro's hungry, rundown island during his day in Cuba. Most of the time was spent huddled with Castro officialdom. Castro and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós were particularly insistent that Ben Bella agree to a specific denunciation of the U.S. Guantánamo Naval Base. So was Che Guevara, the Argentine Communist in charge of Cuba's economy. "Sooner or later," he told Ben Bella, "you, too, will have to face the issue of the French naval base of Mers-el-Kebir." According to a later Algerian account of the session...
State Department Kremlinologists regard Foreign Affairs as an indispensable source of inside dope on Moscow officialdom ; the quarterly has published more than 200 articles on Soviet Russia, some of them be neath such indisputably knowledgeable bylines as Leon Trotsky, Soviet Theoretician N. Bukharin and Nikita Khrushchev...
...autocratic official decisions, as well as inequities in the law. To be known officially as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Investigations, he will be able to take action on his own or on the complaint of any citizen who, for a modest fee ($2.80), seeks redress from unfair treatment by officialdom...
...Soviet officialdom has good reason to fear Fleming's "propaganda." In no time, underprivileged Russian spymasters who read Bond's adventures will be demanding their own share of oversexed fillies and undercooked filets. Their expense accounts could wreck SMERSH more effectively than 007 himself...