Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side and visiting schools and factories. She also took on a sensitive post in the Communist Party's Military Advisory Commission, reportedly to keep watch on security matters for her husband. But she has no political strength of her own and is not a member of the ruling Politburo...
...fact that he has never been in Moscow to parley in the Kremlin with Leonid Brezhnev and the Politburo will be even more of a handicap to Carter when the Soviet chief makes what is almost sure to be a SALT-signing visit in Washington this spring. The Soviet summit is "big casino," in the words of one American. Carter will be dealing with a superpower, not a nation of poverty that happens to reek with potential...
...true that he rules with the support of his allies in the Politburo and in consensus with Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, but he is still the boss. If there were any doubts about this, they were resolved a month ago when Brezhnev added two more of his closest allies to the top leadership, Konstantin Chernenko as a full Politburo member and Nikolai Tikhonov as a candidate member...
Brezhnev was Nikita Khrushchev's protégé, but Brezhnev has groomed no heir apparent. Prognosticators in Western capitals, who admit they do not know how the Politburo really works, are unable to point to a logical successor, let alone a challenger, to Brezhnev. Here in Moscow it is still very much the Brezhnev era, and he gives every indication that he intends to keep it that...
While Teng's supporters were being confirmed as Politburo members, the Communist Party Central Committee announced that the long and often bitter purge of the Gang of Four, Peking's disgraced radical faction, had "in the main been completed victoriously." From now on, said the announcement, the stress will no longer be on the criticism campaign but on rapid economic growth...