Word: politburo
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...investigators were not allowed access to medical records, and whistle-blowers were offering embarrassing accounts of official cover-ups to the foreign press. China's new leadership, led by President Hu Jintao, suddenly found itself entangled in an international credibility crisis. Finally, months after the outbreak began, the Politburo Standing Committee, the country's top ruling body, ordered an end to the obfuscation: late last week, the committee demanded "accurate, timely and honest reporting of the SARS situation" from cadres throughout the country. With it came a warning: local and provincial officials "will be held accountable...
...Hong Kong. The WHO then estimated the capital's SARS patients at 100 to 200?five times more than the government acknowledged?based on hospital visits and other data. On Friday, state media reported that China's new President, Hu Jintao, had met the previous day with the Politburo's Standing Committee and that those present were "explicitly warned against the covering up of SARS cases...
...assault clearly took a toll on Ansar's militants. Politburo member Mahmood Sangarwi of the pro-American Patriotic Union of Kurdistan says 60 dead were left behind after Friday's battles. In the rocky terrain of Saturday's exchange I saw eight more slain Ansar fighters. Some had died in their bunkers; others were cut down as they fled over open ground or among relatively exposed rocky outcrops. Their corpses remained where they had fallen throughout the assault...
Still, with Chernenko so feeble and ill, it was I who had to preside over the Politburo sessions throughout most of his tenure. Thus, it fell to me to convene the emergency session at his death. I called Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, one of the longest-serving and most influential members of the Politburo, and arranged to meet him privately half an hour before the session. I told Gromyko: "Too many problems have piled up in the country. I believe you and I have to tackle them together." Gromyko answered: "I fully agree with your appraisal of the situation...
...gate!" on that chaotic Thursday evening, Harald Jager, head of passport control at the Berlin Wall's Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint, kept shouting that rhetorical question at the guards under his command. It was nearly 11 p.m., four hours since Jager heard the stunning news on TV: the East German Politburo, responding to weeks of peaceful demonstrations and a flood of refugees fleeing through Hungary and Czechoslovakia, had announced that all citizens could leave East Germany at any crossing "immediately." Suddenly Jager, 48, held in his hands the fate of thousands of people--as well as that of the Wall...