Word: plenum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mazurov's downfall had much to do with his lackluster performance as the Politburo member with specific responsibility for Soviet industry. Since the tenth Five-Year Plan began three years ago, the Soviets have placed special stress on increasing industrial productivity and technological modernization. At a plenum session of the party's Central Committee last week, Brezhnev complained about continuing industrial snags and bottle' necks. He singled out "central economic bodies, ministries and departments" as particularly responsible for the inefficiency...
...Khrushchev? Or will he, like Georgi Malenkov after the death of Stalin, eventually be relegated to obscurity? Many observers believe that he might endure, given the apparent strength of the moderates in China today. But the first indications of Hua's future may come out of the plenum of the Tenth Party Congress, and preparations for that already seemed under way last week. As the mourning for Mao drew to a close, no one could say whether the plenum would ratify the present leadership or mark the beginning of a bitter power struggle whose outcome few Chinese...
...effect stepping over the dead body of the pro-Soviet Kao Kang, who was then a key member of the Politburo and supreme ruler of the provinces in Manchuria. Kao reportedly committed suicide in a Peking prison after Teng's brutal denunciation of him at a 1955 Central Committee plenum. But if Teng is worried about any long knives, he has not shown it. He is even indulging his old epicurean tastes. Just recently his favorite Szechuanese restaurant in Peking, the Chengtu, reopened, and is packed daily. It had been closed since Teng fell into disgrace back...
...involvement in socialist groups, he has seen plenty of other instances of left-wing sectarianism. He remembers a meeting in 1954 for the unification of the Young Socialists and the Young People's Socialist League. The convention was highlighted by the decision to rename the gathering, "the September Plenum," dedicated to the establishment of a workers' state and to the overthrow of the capitalist, bourgeois regime." The decision was wildly applauded by all of the eighty-three members present...
...disapproved of the policies endorsed at the two conclaves-the "sulking in the tent" theory. The other is that he is desperately ill and has actually been thrust aside-the "vegetable God" theory. Mao at 81 has appeared drawn and fragile in recent photographs, but during the Central Committee plenum, he was well enough to receive Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of Malta in Changsha, capital of his native Hunan province; while the People's Congress was in session, he met with West German Political Leader Franz Josef Strauss. It is one thing, however, for Mao to chat for short...