Word: plenum
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...told me before he himself got seriously ill that I must be prepared to assume the highest responsibility one day. I knew what he meant. He tried to ensure that event. In December 1983, two months before his death, Andropov sent a written message to the Central Committee plenum, suggesting that "Gorbachev should be entrusted with actual leadership." I did not know that he did this. And neither did the plenum. In 1988, I learned that Chernenko had simply cut off that part of the message and concealed it. And so he became General Secretary. If Chernenko did not exist...
That was yet another offering from Blair with which the Americans could wholeheartedly agree. Once the full plenum of 15 member states got together in mid-afternoon, they encountered fewer substantive differences than they have at previous Council summits dominated by thorny issues of how money and power get shared out in the E.U. The members agreed to tone down a proposal calling for the overthrow of the Taliban in favor of "the emergence of a stable, legitimate and representative government for the whole of the Afghan people." More immediately, the ministers underlined their intention to iron out the details...