Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chou Enlai, China's agile Premier, is the most powerful man in Peking after Mao, but he stands at the head of a Politburo decimated by purges and a government riven by myriad factions...
...full members of the Politburo, only nine are now active; of the remaining dozen, six have dropped completely from view since the puzzling happenings of September...
...Sins. The climax of the struggle came in mid-September. In one frantic four-day period Chou En-lai abruptly canceled most of his appointments and the entire Politburo dropped from public view, possibly because its members had been summoned to an emergency session in Peking. China's military leaders also disappeared, including Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, one of his deputy chiefs of staff, the chief of the air force, the First Commissar of the navy and at least twelve senior officers in the Peking military headquarters; they have not been seen since. After a British-made...
...Kissinger sounds hopeful, part of the reason is that he is an unabashed admirer of the pivotal man on the Chinese side, Chou Enlai. Chou (pronounced Joe) has been a member of the Chinese party Politburo for 43 years, a record of survival that not even Mao Tse-tung, with 37 years in the leadership, can match. Chou was the grandson of a landowner and the son of a minor official, but he showed an early talent for firebrand politics?first as a student leader in Tientsin, later as a Communist organizer in France. When he joined the Chinese Communist...
...until President Nixon announced in July that he was going to Peking. Then Brezhnev's Paris trip was suddenly firmed up. The Soviets were not concerned that Premier Aleksei Kosygin would be out of the country at the same time (see following story). President Nikolai Podgorny and other Politburo members were watching the store back in Moscow, and Brezhnev and Kosygin appeared confident enough of their control to be able to travel abroad separately yet simultaneously...