Word: plenum
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...morning hindsight, China-watchers now date the beginnings of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution back to 1963, when a worried Mao instituted his "Socialist Education Movement" in an attempt to get the Chinese psychology back on the revolutionary tracks. Somewhere along the line, possibly at the secret Central Committee plenum of September 1965, he decided stronger doses of Mao-think were needed...
...news came from the sunny Adri atic island of Brioni, 340 miles from Belgrade, where the 75-year-old Tito called together a 155-man plenum of the Yugoslav Central Committee to name names and prefer charges. The leading plotter turned out to be Tito's erstwhile heir apparent, Vice President Aleksandar Ranković, 56. Tito accused his former guerrilla lieutenant of "conspiracy" to undermine Yugoslavia's economic reforms, of encouraging "damaging activity" by the state security police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying...
Deviations & Anomalies. That the crisis had been long abuilding was reflected in Tito's speech to the plenum. He harked back to a three-day meeting in 1962 where secret-police powers had been harshly criticized. "On that occasion," Tito recalled last week, "we established more or less what these various deviations and anomalies were. It seems to me that we made a mistake at that time not to have gone to the end. We stopped halfway owing to certain tendencies toward compromise." By purging Ranković, Tito finally moved beyond the halfway house in reforming Yugoslav Communism...
Party & a Half. There are a good many old-line Marxists who resent Yugoslavia's freewheeling new look and try to sabotage it whenever they can. Not long ago, Tito called a plenum and delivered a blistering rebuke to those "who have worked in a way contrary to the implementation of reform." The old-liners are under pressure from a different direction: Tito is encouraging the 8,000,000-member Socialist Alliance, once a rubber-stamp popular front, to stand in local elections against his ruling League of Yugoslav Communists Party. Though still under the League's wing...
...Brezhnev was kicked upstairs from the Secretariat to the largely ceremonial chairmanship of the Presidium of the party, which he adroitly used to keep his picture in Pravda. But at the June 1963 party plenum, Brezhnev was restored to the Secretariat, and thus became the only other full member of the Presidium (after Khrushchev) to hold state and party posts...