Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...host, the Moscow summit is also something of a test, for the talks are the key to his policy of East-West détente. Brezhnev does not have an election in the fall -but he would face an even quicker verdict from his colleagues in the Politburo, of which he is primus inter pares, if the talks were a failure...
...supply only defensive arms to North Viet Nam. If Brezhnev raises the question of what is to become of the twelve Soviet freighters stranded in Haiphong, Nixon is likely to reply that they will have to remain there until Hanoi accepts his peace proposal. Although Hanoi's Politburo depends upon Russia and China for supplies, it makes its own political decisions. Thus there is little that Moscow can do about the current offensive other than to urge them toward realistic negotiations...
...well they get along. Time and again, would-be negotiators from the West have been enraged and frustrated by the Soviets' capacity to back off from an agreement at the last possible moment or undermine it later. Goals and policies in the all but unknown deliberations of the Politburo can change overnight...
...through one long emergency session of the 15-man Politburo after another, Leonid Brezhnev may well have felt a twinge of envy at Richard Nixon's evident power to make quick foreign policy decisions on his own. Despite his pre-eminence as Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party, Brezhnev is a member of a collective leadership whose decisions are reached only by consensus. Last week those deliberations were especially arduous, as Russia's ruling council coped with its most complex challenge in a decade: how to respond to the U.S.'s mining of North Vietnamese harbors...
...North Vietnamese offensive in South Viet Nam, but he is by no means his own master in Hanoi. The most powerful figure in the North Vietnamese hierarchy is Le Duan, the shrewd, remote first secretary of Hanoi's ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party and ranking member of its Politburo. A nervous and intense man who grew up in what is now South Viet Nam, Le Duan is generally regarded as the chief architect of Hanoi's relentless crusade to take over the South. His pre-eminence is underscored by the fact that in recent weeks Hanoi newspapers have...