Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monde from Paris on the same day carried an Agence France Presse report from Hanoi which said that Minister Xuan Thuy had returned to Paris and that special envoy and Politburo member Le Duc Tho would also arrive there probably by the end of November...
Also, Husák is engaged in a power struggle with two rivals on the Politburo, Vasil Bilàk and Alois Indra, ultra hard-liners who immediately welcomed the Soviet invasion in 1968. In order to protect his tenuous position, Husák may have been forced to order the arrests...
Unfortunately, Husák was lying. Even as he gave those assurances earlier this month to Roland Leroy, a member of the French Communist Politburo, the first large-scale mass arrests since Dubček's downfall were in process. As of last week, more than 200 Czechoslovaks had been rounded up. About 40 were charged with distributing leaflets that denounced last November's national-assembly elections as a rigged farce-which, of course, they were. Many of the others were liberal intellectuals and journalists who supported Dubček's short-lived Springtime of Freedom, which...
...success of Chou's American initiatives. A representative to the U.S.-sponsored Nationalist-Communist peace negotiations in 1946-47, he was at Chou's side during the Kissinger visits and will be again during the Nixon summit. He is one of ten remaining full members of the Politburo...
...teenager, young Chou organized a student society called Ching-yeh lo-chün (meaning "Respect Work and Enjoy Group Life"). He studied Marxism in Japan, founded Chinese Communist youth groups in France and Germany. By the time he was 30, Chou was a full-fledged member of the Politburo. During the harsh Long March, Chou established his lasting relationship with Mao. When Mao swept into Peking in 1949, Chou was ready with plans for China's new Communist government. On more than one occasion during the early struggles with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, Chou personally ordered...