Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably has seen the pinnacles. Last year some of us were standing in the magnificent Hall of St. George in the Kremlin on the final day of Nixon's Moscow summit. All Russia's elite were there, cosmonauts and marshals, diplomats and artists, the Politburo and the KGB agents...
SMILING broadly as he deplaned at Paris' Orly Airport, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger effusively praised North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Due Tho as "my old friend in the search for peace." Later, when the two met at the U.S.-owned villa outside Paris, there were more smiles and handshakes. With this ceremonial display of affection, the talks on the future of Viet Nam were reconvened last week. At stake, once again, was peace in Indochina; Kissinger and Tho, it was hoped, would figure out ways to stop the continued fighting that threatens to undo the cease-fire agreement they...
Grechko, 69, is the first soldier to serve on the Politburo since 1957. A Brezhnev ally, he has supported the easing of East-West tensions even though it involves an inevitable reduction in the importance of the military. Inside the Politburo, his expertise will be invaluable to Brezhnev on such complex issues as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions conference...
...Then again, Brezhnev may simply have felt that it was better, in a major shakeup, to have the top cop inside the tent instead of outside it. The elevation of Romanov, 50, was interpreted as a reward for a dutiful party boss, who becomes a "candidate" member of the Politburo with no voting rights...
Shelest and Voronov were the first Politburo members to be fired for political reasons since Brezhnev took over. Their fall was not unexpected. Last May, Shelest, 65, was removed from the leadership of the Ukrainian Party after he was believed to have opposed President Nixon's visit to Moscow. Since then he has also been accused of promoting Ukrainian nationalism. Voronov was ousted as Premier of the Russian Republic in 1971. Besides lacking enthusiasm for détente, he had disagreed with Brezhnev on agricultural policies. At 62, he may also have been regarded by Brezhnev as a future...