Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WELCOME, COMRADE, read the headline in the London Daily Mail. Just in case the visitor failed to get the message, the paper repeated it in Russian: Mbl BAC HE XOTHM, TOBAPHIU.The comrade was Politburo Member Alexander Shelepin, whose 48-hour visit to Britain last week mortified the Labor government, embarrassed the trade unions, and stirred unexpectedly deep reserves of anti-Communist feeling among the British public...
...elder statesman of Chinese Communism; in Peking. One of the youthful firebrands who helped Mao Tse-tung organize the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in 1921, Tung was a veteran of the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province in 1934-35 and a member of the Politburo ever since Map's final victory...
...Chiang Ching, 60, the onetime movie actress and Mao's fourth wife, is the most prominent of the radicals who rocketed to power during the Cultural Revolution. Many have long regarded her as a leading candidate to succeed her husband. From her seat on the Politburo, she has wielded considerable power and was probably a major sponsor of the anti-Confucius campaign. But the military distrusts her, and the moderates hate her vengefulness and capriciousness. In China's current sober climate, Chiang Ching has become the butt of salacious jokes and comparisons with the notorious 7th century Empress...
...would replace him? The answer may prove as problematical as the tangled mechanics of the transfer of power in the U.S.S.R. Although a General Secretary is supposedly elected by the 241 full members of the Central Committee, in practice he is designated by 27 men, members of the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat. In the past, this elite has scarcely been inclined to invest real power in any single individual. The death or ouster of every top leader in Soviet history has been followed by a long period of "collective leadership" until one man sufficiently consolidated his position...
Logical Choice. Specialists in Washington and Europe believe the most logical choice to succeed Brezhnev would be Andrei Kirilenko. During Brezhnev's present illness, Kirilenko is presumably standing in for his chief in the Politburo. In recent years he has often filled this role when Brezhnev was sick or traveling abroad. Thus Kirilenko would make an ideal transitional figure for a few years. At 68, Kirilenko represents no real threat to the younger members of the 16-man Politburo and ten-man Secretariat of the Central Committee, who would be jockeying for power under his titular leadership...