Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime rival, General Nguyen Chi Thanh, wanted to stick with big-unit warfare. Thanh had the advantage of being closest to the action as head of all Communist operations in South Viet Nam from his headquarters northwest of Saigon along the Cambodian border, and he prevailed in the Politburo...
...founding of his own army. The best evidence is that he has set up a headquarters just north of the DMZ, determined, even if it is against his own instincts, to make big-unit war work against the U.S. He has said, in effect, to the Politburo: If this is what you want to do, I'll show...
...Volcano and the Snow"-he has, at times, been put down by Ho. An outburst against a French general in 1945 cost him a place on the negotiating team that tried to win independence from France at the end of World War II. A running feud with two powerful Politburo members-whose pro-Peking sentiments were resented by the strongly nationalistic Giap-kept him well down in Hanoi's Communist pecking order. Although he is North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, military commander and Vice Premier-and a popular hero second only to Ho Chi Minh-Giap...
...Kremlin express may have had yet another goal in its Polish stop: to head off the ousting of Gomulka that was rumored imminent. His most likely replacement is Edward Giereck, a Politburo member in his mid-50s who was once a miner and is now party boss of the big Katowice industrial region of Poland...
Nowadays, the balance in the troika is such that no one man is likely to impose his will against the others. A majority vote in the Politburo decides policy on many issues. Even Brezhnev was dealt a setback recently when the Politburo cut back by 13% his fiveyear, $45 billion crash investment program in agriculture. Kosygin was reported to have opposed bringing Sinyavsky and Daniel to trial but to have been outvoted by his colleagues. The move toward high-level democratization has in no way been institutionalized, however, and it is still possible that one man could again gather...