Word: politburo
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...strengthen his own slipping grip on the party machinery. The whole shebang very nearly came apart last September when an abortive barracks coup by his own Defense Minister and heir apparent, Lin Piao, forced Mao to ground the entire Chinese air force for weeks, and subsequently to cashier several Politburo members and carry out a sweeping purge of top-rank military...
...filling to be done. Something like 130 of Peking's 300 senior military men-including the army chief of staff and top officers in the air force, the navy and the logistics command-have simply dropped from public view since autumn. With just twelve active members, the Politburo is now only half its original size, although it accurately reflects the divisions in the regime between the leftist ideological hotspurs who opposed the rapprochement with the West-and especially President Nixon's visit last February-and the old-guard pragmatists who approved of both...
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...tente would lead to political relaxation in the Communist countries. The effect so far has been the opposite. Communist leaders throughout the bloc are seeking to immunize their people from the possibly liberalizing contamination that could result from closer economic and cultural contact with the West. Soviet Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov has warned that détente will actually mean a sharpening of the political tensions between the Communist and capitalist countries. "In the ideological field," Suslov declared, "there is not and cannot be any peaceful coexistence...
...Xuan Thuy. He suggested that while the Communists still wanted to oust Thieu, the shape of Saigon's political future might be left-as the U.S. has proposed-to later negotiations between the two Viet Nams. Then, at week's end, Le Due Tho, a North Vietnamese Politburo member who has had secret talks with Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, returned to Paris and indicated his willingness to enter into private talks again. Said Tho: "If Mr. Kissinger has something new to say and shows an interest in seeing me, I am ready to see him to discuss...