Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectuals of Eastern Europe have yet to benefit from the improving political climate between East and West. If anything, their lot has deteriorated, particularly in Czechoslovakia, where the leader of the Politburo's hardline faction, Vasil Bilak, seems to be carrying out a witch hunt against suspect liberal ideas. The lessening of tensions, Bilak has announced, will not result in official toleration of "rightists, opportunists, revisionists and organizers of counter-revolution...
...followers subsequently were purged from the thousands of posts they held in the government, party and military. This nearly paralyzed the bureaucracies, even at the highest levels. Of the 21-man Politburo, only eleven members are known to be active, and its five-man standing committee has only two functioning members, Mao and Premier Chou Enlai. This week's congress must fill those vacant ranks. It is also expected that for the first time Lin will be branded a traitor and right-wing opportunist (the party's worst sin). The congress will then have to adopt...
...gathering is quite like a congress of a ruling Communist Party. To Communists it represents the highest embodiment of their party's ideological and political wisdom. Like a legislature, it enacts statutes and elects the members of the ruling Central Committee and the powerful Politburo. Like an American political convention, it adopts what amounts to a platform listing the party's tasks and priorities. Like a revival meeting, it gives the local leaders who attend as delegates renewed enthusiasm and regenerated faith...
...sessions probably will be closed to the public. Nonetheless, when the congress adjourns, after a session that could last ten days, its published resolutions and the roster of the new Central Committee and Politburo will signal the direction in which China is heading...
...nonsense bobs and shapeless pantsuits, have been too busy to worry about how they looked. No woman leader has been seen wearing a dress in public since the cultural revolution. Heads snapped, therefore, when Chiang Ching, who is also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next to American Envoy David Bruce, had scored the most...