Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 1973, he suddenly reappeared at a banquet in Peking and was led to his seat by Mao's niece Wang Hai-jung, now a Vice Foreign Minister. By the following January, Teng had been fully rehabilitated, appointed Chou's Vice Premier and listed as a Politburo member. His leadership role was officially sealed when Teng led a Chinese delegation to the U.N. special session on raw materials in New York in 1974. When he boarded a plane in Peking for the flight to the U.S., he was seen off by virtually the entire Politburo...
...Soviets have learned the hard way-in Egypt, Uganda and elsewhere -that military aid is an uncertain political investment in Africa. Thus the nationalism of the M.P.L.A.'s leaders causes skeptics in Moscow, including some at the Politburo level, to question whether the Kremlin might be throwing away its rubles in Angola. They argue that there is no way to guarantee that sizable Soviet backing will buy an obedient satellite state or even produce a trustworthy ally. Moreover, even if the Soviets were to gain naval and air bases in Angola, giving them a long-coveted foothold...
...domestic political debate. Under fire from some quarters for being too conciliatory, President Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev are showing greater toughness in the East-West exchange. As one Western intelligence official describes it, "Brezhnev is moving toward Mikhail Suslov [a veteran hard-liner on the Politburo], and Ford is moving toward Ronald Reagan...
...Western analysts feel could be a setback for Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Says one diplomat: "The grain situation could put the leadership and Brezhnev on the spot." The necessity of buying grain from the capitalist U.S. is expected to be a touchy issue. Brezhnev can argue within the Politburo, however, that the U.S. wants Soviet oil as much as the Soviets want U.S. grain...
...General Assembly. The scheme: to grant virtually unlimited powers to a triumvirate of generals, made up of President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Gonçalves and Internal Security Forces Chief Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, an ultraradical populist. The 30-man Revolutionary Council, the M.F.A.'s Politburo, presumably will yield almost all of the lawmaking authority it has enjoyed since assuming active rule of the country following the abortive right-wing coup last March. Under the new plan, the Council becomes a consultative body to the triumvirate. To justify the drastic action, Costa Gomes told the Assembly that...