Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presidium was, of course, older: it now averages 62, a fairly advanced age for a group that claims to represent the world's future. (Communist China's Politburo is even more decrepit: its average age is 65.) Former Member of the Secretariat Frol Kozlov, 55, was not on hand; the severe stroke he suffered last spring had dropped him from the front rank. Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 61, the victim of a kidney or liver ailment late last year, was back at the stand, invigorated, no doubt, by the heady air he had whipped up with his ideological attack...
...vote, Ho, standing for re-election to the Assembly, rolled up a Marxist-style 99.92% majority. Finishing close behind him were two top functionaries of North Viet Nam's Communist movement, known as Lao Dong, or Workers'Party: First Secretary Le Duan, who won 99.83% and Politburo Member Truong Chinh with 99.81%. Duan, 57, and Chinh, 55, are leaders of the party's pro-Peking wing, and their margins are a measure of the growing challenge by the Peking men to Uncle...
These satirical passages are among Miss McCarthy's cleverest: "But the red-letter day in Mr. Andrews' life was the day he became a Trotskyite! . . . The figure of the whiskered war commissar wearing a white uniform and riding in his armored train or reading French novels during Politburo meetings captured his imagination. He demanded that Mr. Schneider recruit him to the Trotskyite group...
Whatever the propaganda, Mao has worked for more than 30 years with the other six members of the Standing Committee of the 19-man Politburo without an internal bloodbath-a record unmatched by any other modern tyranny, Communist or Fascist. Among this band of brothers, dissent is possible-you may lose your job but not your head. Economic Chief Chen Yun opposed Mao's Great Leap and it only cost him a temporary fall from power. The other five committeemen are Heir Apparent Liu Shao-chi (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959), Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, May 10, 1954), Defense...
...week's end, Ben Bella had issued a sheaf of pacifying orders. From now on, he declared, Algiers would be a "demilitarized city" under the control of a police force loyal to the Politburo. The often-postponed national elections were rescheduled for Sept. 16. Ben Bella also took personal credit for having brought an end to the fighting. That seemed only fair to most Algerians: after all, Ben Bella had started it. But his troubles-and Algeria's -were only beginning...