Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough old soldier who defected from the Kuomintang and fought alongside Mao Tse-tung during the famed Long March in the '30s, Peng was the leader of the conservative faction of the Chinese politburo. While on a trip to Albania in May 1959, he secretly told Nikita Khrushchev of his strong opposition to Mao's agricultural commune system. With Khrushchev's encouragement, Peng returned to China and denounced Mao's Great Leap Forward as "petty bourgeois fanaticism." At a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee in August 1959, Peng said that...
...scandal broke last fall when Pre mier Josef Cyrankiewicz, Politburo Member Edward Ochab and other top functionaries suddenly got a rash of Rabelaisian letters that mingled demands for greater intellectual freedom with obscene personal denunciations. Most of the letters, many of which were mimeographed, were mailed from the same Warsaw letter box, and police soon identified the sender: Novelist Jerzy Kornacki, 53, a protégé of the late Polish President, Boleslaw Bierut, and author of several proletarian novels (the best known: Hauling the Brick Carts). He is also an active member of Warsaw's Crooked Circle Club...
...astonishing turn of events for Conakry's small community of Western diplomats, and a cold slap for the far-left extremists in Touré's P.D.G. politburo. At a P.D.G. national conference last week, rank-and-file delegates supported Touré, clamored for death penalties for the jailed hard-core Communist teachers...
...Kremlin gates, the boys were unceremoniously frisked for hidden weapons. Then Russia's rulers hurried to the Politburo conference room for an emergency meeting. It was June...
...Moscow, the Warsaw chiller was branded "false and fantastic." However the story really ended, the Politburo is apparently trying hard to prevent the rise of another Beria. It abolished the MVD, freed many of its prisoners, and handed over police functions to a Committee on State Security (KGB), which is supposed to be accountable to the party as a whole. In keeping with its friendly new face, the Kremlin last week appointed as its new KGB boss a model of the rising young Soviet-style executive. The new top cop: Vladimir Semichastny, 37, who has been the leader...