Word: politburo
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...series of unexplained military maneuvers around Moscow last fall fueled rumors that the army had used scare tactics to pressure Gorbachev. A much repeated story speaks of a tense meeting of the Communist Party Politburo at which the President was forced to back away from economic reform and crack down on separatism...
...Westerners of plotting to flood the Soviet market with billions of rubles, wreck the economy and ultimately overthrow Gorbachev. Two weeks ago, the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that Moscow party chief Yuri Prokofiev had said, "Gorbachev was forced to refuse the ((radical reform)) program at nighttime sessions of the Politburo...
...power, is on a roll, and so is Syria, which less than two years ago was shown the door in Lebanon. North Korea has exploded a nuclear device, and Russia is back to its imperial ways, except that Putin is much more effective with his pipelines than was the Politburo with its tanks and missiles. Much of Africa is stuck in poverty, war and disease while Latin America is again succumbing to the false promises of populist demagoguery. Last summer's bloody melee in Lebanon, fought against a Hizballah trained and equipped by Tehran, may have been the first Israeli...
Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China's Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member-over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai's pension accounts to fund investments in the city's booming real estate-was widely seen as a political move by President Hu Jintao to consolidate power ahead of next year's Party Congress. On a second level, Chen's arrest, along with the news late last week that real estate speculation was also under scrutiny...
...night munchies. At this point, you may still be reeling from what you naively think are the myriad possibilities of late night dining in the Square. In fact, there are two poor pizza parlors and an adequate burrito place. Blame this on Cambridge’s town government, a politburo of curmudgeonly residents, who, though they live miles away from Felipe’s, still manage to hear noise from the restaurant. Of course, once mid-semester comes, you’ll have no time to go out. Upperclassmen will obviously still be partying, as they understand that...