Word: politburo
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...further. U.S. State Department analysts, pointing to Jaruzelski's past reluctance to use force against strikers, predict that he will support Kania's relatively moderate policy toward the unions. If that happens, Kania will have gained a valuable counterweight in his struggle against extreme hard-liners like Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski who have been arguing for an immediate crackdown. Finally, Jaruzelski is trusted by the Kremlin; thus his entry into the government may reassure the Soviets that Warsaw intends to move firmly and effectively to restore order. Says one West German expert: "Jaruzelski is the last chance Moscow...
...height of the food price riots 4½ years ago, the general told his colleagues on the Politburo: "Polish soldiers will not fire on Polish workers...
...climb through the Communist Party was no less rapid. Elevated to the Central Committee in 1964, he became an alternate member of the Politburo in 1970, a full member the next year. With party rank came political office. Appointed Deputy Minister of National Defense in 1962, he was promoted to Minister in 1968 and has held that post ever since...
...recommendation on most-favored-nation trading status for the U.S.S.R.) When American inducements were made less tempting to the Kremlin, many of the same benefits became available elsewhere-technology from Japan, grain from Argentina, electronic products and computer equipment from France. Today Soviet officials say privately that the Politburo's decision to step up its African activities in 1975 was made easier by the fiasco over the Jackson Amendment, and that the decision to invade Afghanistan in December 1979 was made easier by the fact that SALT II already seemed doomed in the Senate...
...Soviet economy. "The Great Patriotic War was only 35 years ago and we have had to rebuild Eastern Europe and provide for our defense first," is the common rebuttal to any attack on the Soviets' ailing economy. But in choosing this method to justify their regime, the Politburo is forced to continue the paranoia and xenophobia of a war atmosphere. The enemy is NATO, China and the CIA. TASS depicts the United States as obsessed with disrupting the Soviet way of life. The Soviets are told that we spend twice what they do on armaments, and most believe...