Word: politburo
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...decades. For the first three years after the 1949 Communist seizure of the mainland, China for all practical ; purposes was run by the military. After the transition to civilian rule in 1954, the army played a subordinate role, even though it had enough seats on such institutions as the Politburo, the Central Committee and the National People's Congress to guarantee its power base within the party structure...
...fraudulent work. Pufang denies the charges. The names of other relatives of leaders read like entries in a Chinese Who's Who. Among them: Chi Haotian, 59, Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army and son-in-law of President Yang Shangkun; Li Tieying, 53, a rising Politburo member whose father was Li Weihan, a founder of the Communist Party; and State Councilor Zou Jiahua, 62, son-in-law of a famed army marshal...
...because it was made to the representative of an old enemy nation than because it signaled to the viewing audience that resentment of the government's treatment of the hunger strikers should be directed at Deng. Zhao's effort to distance himself from the government and Deng was, the Politburo apparently judged, inexcusable...
...accused politician is none other than Yegor Ligachev, 68, the ruling Politburo's leading conservative. His accusers are Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov, government prosecutors who specialize in rooting out official corruption in central Asia...
...Khint case was not the real issue, according to Gdlyan's colleague, Ivanov, 37. During a televised debate Ivanov, who was running for a Leningrad seat in the legislature, said Gdlyan was suspended because his investigations had begun to implicate leading officials, including Ligachev and former Politburo members Grigori Romanov and Mikhail Solomentsev...