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...
...religion, as are the Bosnian Muslims. Their economic importance to the major powers cannot be underemphasized. No historical significance can be attached to their region and their struggle by the West. In effect, the people of Rwanda must be worth next to nothing in the eyes of the plenum of the U.N. Lack of resources isn't keeping the U.N. out of Rwanda, so what else could...
...stores to ask why there was no meat for sale, fired hundreds of incompetents from the city's payroll and arrested hundreds of others for corruption. Embarrassed by Yeltsin's increasingly critical tone, Gorbachev in late 1987 forced him out of the Politburo and humiliated him at a closed plenum of the Moscow party committee, after Yeltsin had made an impassioned plea for greater democracy. On Moscow streets the news of his downfall was greeted with something akin to mourning...
Faced with the latest plenum setback, Sergeyev vowed to oppose what Gorbachev is doing to the party "by every possible means -- within the law." He admitted that there would be "tough times" ahead for hard-liners. Gorbachev declared last week that the party would only be "strengthened" if those who opposed his new program resigned, but Sergeyev has his own ideas. "The social democrats and liberals -- and that includes Gorbachev -- should get out," says Sergeyev. "Let them create their own new party. True communists have no reason to leave...