Word: politburo
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...foreign affairs and security matters. The progress of the Red Cross negotiations, which will formally begin later this year with a precise agenda, led to Lee's visit to Pyongyang, where he talked with Premier Kim II Sung and Kim's younger brother and heir apparent, Politburo Member Kim Yong Ju. When he arrived back in Panmunjom from his historic journey, Lee subsequently confessed, "I felt dizzy." Three weeks later Kim sent his second Vice Premier, Pak Sung Chul, to Seoul for secret talks with South Korean officials...
...negotiate in that way. If these negotiations go forward in a serious and constructive way, this war can be ended, and it can be ended well before Jan. 20"-the last day of Nixon's present term. There were reports in Washington, however, that Hanoi's Politburo had recently wound up two weeks of intensive meetings and that there was no major change in North Viet Nam's position. Coming as the meetings did in the wake of the Moscow summit, as well as Henry Kissinger's recent Peking journey, there was some speculation that Hanoi...
...concentrating oir in their attacks. The final returns will not be in until the dry season returns to South Viet Nam in the fall and the North Vietnamese either launch a second round to their offensive or are visibly unable to do so. Hanoi's Central Committee and Politburo are known to have recently debated how they should react to the raids, though whatever decision they reached, if any, has not been revealed. Russia and China are continuing to send supplies, but at a much reduced level; both regard the invasion as a costly mistake that gave Washington occasion...
Moldavian party he completed the collectivization of peasants formerly under Rumanian rule. In 1952 his success in carrying out such unglamorous tasks bore fruit. Brezhnev finally broke into the Kremlin establishment as an alternate member of the Presidium (now the Politburo) under Stalin and as a Secretary of the Central Committee...
...master of Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev slipped into the slot of party chief. Since that time, he has succeeded in outmaneuvering and outdistancing his principal opponents in the Politburo-notably, Alexander Shelepin and Nikolai Podgorny. He has also managed to take over many of Premier Kosygin's functions...