Word: politburo
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...make room for younger leaders, eight of the Politburo's 14 members, are to retire; all are over 65. Among them: President Yang Shangkun, Vice Premier Yao Yilin and Defense Minister Qin Jiwei. None of this indicates that China's rulers are contemplating any political relaxation. Yang and others who are leaving the Politburo will retain their government positions and their grip on power...
...less incriminating to the Soviet Union's communist rulers were minutes of a March 5, 1940, Politburo meeting making plain that it was Joseph Stalin who ordered the massacre of Polish officers whose bodies were later found in the Katyn Forest. Almost simultaneously with the release of the KAL transcripts, Moscow released documents showing that Stalin signed the minutes, which contained an order for "execution by a firing squad" -- without trial or indictment -- of 25,700 Polish officers and other notables...
...pulled the strings of a puppet parliament, government and judicial system. The case will be based on a trail of paper evidence linking the party leadership to almost every decision of importance -- or unimportance -- made in the Soviet Union. Says presidential lawyer Sergei Shakhrai: "We will show how the Politburo passed laws, not the parliament; how it rendered judicial verdicts, not the Supreme Court; how it managed the economy and launched space flights, not government agencies. It was the Communist Party that created the Soviet Union and also brought about its downfall...
...places have borne witness to so much modern history as the fifth-floor corner conference room at No. 4 Staraya Ploshchad, a few blocks from the Kremlin. Seated in brown leather swivel chairs around a wooden table, the ruling Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made its decisions to invade Afghanistan, reduce nuclear weapons, settle questions of Kremlin succession. It was in this room that Mikhail Gorbachev first discussed reform policies that would change the world and bring the U.S.S.R. to an end. Today the headquarters of the once powerful party belongs to Russia's new democratic...
...takes his place at the head of the table. The chair on his left is reserved for Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. Gennadi Burbulis, Yeltsin's top political strategist, and First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the point man of Russia's economic reforms, sit on the right. The old Politburo table had to be lengthened to seat the 35 ministers in the government and 30 state-committee chairmen. Most of Yeltsin's staff must scramble for chairs along the walls...