Word: politburo
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...MUOI Vietnam's aging Party Secretary gets new term, proves the Politburo still runs the show...
...immediately was known, that it brought the normally fractious Harvard community into rare unity. A Soldiers' Field rally of 11,000 students and faculty produced a strike. Classes turned into floating picnics; strike T-shirts and arm bands entered the realm of high fashion; and nightly political meetings of Politburo duration became the after-dinner activity of choice. For some, there might be dancing 'til dawn, with drugs and sex in abundance. Harvard now had far more pressing things to do than police its students' bodies...
...Moscow's main television center during the abortive coup of October 1993; the so-called red millionaire Vladimir Semago, who is reported to own a string of city casinos; and Yuri Maslyukov, the last head of the Soviet State Planning Commission and a candidate member of Gorbachev's Politburo. He still believes, as Gorbachev did, that with some fine-tuning the communist system can be made to work...
Though Yeltsin may personify the post-Soviet era, all the elements of a successful politburo-style road show were in place: the mink-hatted acolytes, the handpicked entourage of veterans, the phalanx of sullen, gray-coated security agents. But as Yeltsin delivered his rambling speech, it was apparent that something had gone awry. One moment he was pledging to save Russia from a new Bolshevik revolution, the next he was suggesting that female employees of a local chocolate factory pair off with single military cadets. When he finally wound down, the lackluster applause demonstrated all too clearly that even...
...have to work from primary sources," he explains, adding that until minutes of politburo meetings and internal archives become available the most recent history of Eastern Europe will be the property of journalists and political scientists...