Word: politburo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...July, he had the boy join him on the dais at a communist rally for the island's children. He also visited with Elian to congratulate him on completing first grade, and later inaugurated a museum in Cardenas to the struggle over Elian's fate. Few Cubans outside the politburo get that much face time with their Maximum Leader...
...International Olympic Committee awarded the city the 2008 Summer Games, was the greatest overnight boon to the Communist Party since the end of the ultraleftist Cultural Revolution a quarter century ago?and the leadership was quick to exploit it. Immediately after the announcement of Beijing's victory, the entire politburo stood before the nation for the live television broadcast of a "mass cultural gathering" that featured pirouetting schoolchildren singing ditties like New Beijing Love, New Olympic Dreams. Then President Jiang Zemin hitched a ride to Tiananmen Square for the most populist performance of his career. He appeared on the rostrum...
During the Cold War, Fisher co-authored an article with a member of the Politburo, the policy-making body of the Soviet Union, that became official Soviet policy. According to Patton, Fisher pioneered ways in which opposing sides can work together even when they disagree on fundamental matters...
...This Politburo-style leadership is unfair and unseemly at Harvard. As an influential part of an institution which claims to be devoted to democratic principles, the committee should be promoting public discourse and encouraging participation from everyone in the University. But our best efforts to engage in a dialogue with the committee have been met with silence: the committee has gone to extraordinary lengths to shield itself from the eyes of the University and the public at large. It meets in secret, in undisclosed locations, and never releases its minutes. Our inquiries and requests for information have not even been...
Later, on May 17, Deng himself expressed during a Politburo meeting that "Compromises right now are surrenders to their [the students'] values, and to not compromise we must insist on the position of the April 26 editorial." The April 26 editorial was one of the focal points of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, for it demonstrated how the CCP had from the beginning perceived the students' protests as a "turmoil" that threatened its power...