Word: politburo
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...they roamed at will over much of Luzon. In some places they levied taxes, ran their own schools and newspapers, and maintained a string of "production centers." They had the help and sympathy of thousands of villagers who found them less objectionable than the government itself. Their Politburo met under the nose of the government in Manila and boldly drew up a "strategic plan for the seizure of national power." At this point, the display in "the show window of democracy" looked pretty shabby...
...Huks are still a force to be reckoned with. But they are no longer a threat to Manila, or (in daytime) along the main highways through central Luzon. Six of the Huk Politburo are in jail. When Magsaysay took over, the Huks numbered an estimated 16,000. Now he claims there are only 8,000. Swashbuckling Luis Taruc, the dyed-in-the-Red general of the rebellion, is still at large, but with Magsaysay's 100,000-peso price on his head, reportedly has become so nervous and distrustful of his own comrades that he will let only...
...back at his political enemies. By last week, it was clear that they had overreached themselves when they tried to break his hold on the All-India Congress Party (TIME, July 30) and caused him to resign from the party's Working Committee (a sort of Congress Party Politburo). Giddy with what looked like victory, Party President Purushottamdas Tandon, who controls the largely corrupt Congress political machine, violently attacked and insulted Nehru. He had reckoned without Nehru's tremendous popularity with the Indian masses...
...Russia upped the ante again. The Czech economy could not take it. Last week, in a frantic effort to meet Moscow's demands, the Czech Communist regime was shaken up. The Czech Communist Party 1) abolished its governing four-man secretariat, shifted its job to a Soviet-style Politburo and Orgburo; 2) switched Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky from his top post as party general secretary to Vice Premier, which may or may not mean that he was kicked upstairs; 3) abolished the Ministry of Heavy Industry, spread its functions among five new ministries...
...whether he was a Communist or had written for Communist publications. Ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers took the stand to testify that Field was a member of the Communist underground in 1937. Louis Budenz, onetime Daily Worker managing editor, described Field as the transmission link between the American Politburo and the I.P.R...