Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some analysts speculated that Deng had ordered the crackdown under pressure from hard-lining Politburo members in exchange for the right to pursue his modernization program. The new campaign has already had a visible effect on the democracy wall. Last week only one poster defended human rights. The others called for nothing bolder than catching up with the West by the year 2000-in weapons and industry, of course...
...frontier with China. There are also potential domestic implications for the People's Republic. The inconclusive outcome of the war may have hurt the prestige of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who is chief of staff of the P.L. A. More than anyone else in the Politburo, Teng has been personally identified with the invasion. If it should be perceived as a flop in the future, opponents could conceivably use it against him, much as the Cuban missile crisis was used against Khrushchev. Some diplomats noted that last week another, lesser known Vice Premier, Li Hsien-nien...
...gendarme and ruler of all it can grasp. One mystery: How do the Vietnamese maintain that martial impulse after more than 30 years of constant warfare? Part of the answer derives from who has the upper hand in the collective leadership that succeeded Ho Chi Minh. The eleven-man Politburo is divided between pragmatists who want to concentrate on internal reconstruction and hard-liners who are bent on military adventure, despite the gruesome hardships involved. The hardliners, led by pro-Soviet Party Boss Le Duan and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, are in control. Says a diplomat long acquainted with...
...strike into the frozen, inhospitable terrain of Sinkiang, but a more likely target is Manchuria, China's industrial heartland. Analysts hopefully discount an air attack on China's nuclear faculty at Lop Nor as a "doomsday" option, one perhaps favored by Moscow's military brass, but not by the Politburo...
...such tail twisting should now be so popular in Hanoi, some Western observers can only speculate that it is a sign that a group of hard-lining expansionists, led by General Vo Nguyen Giap and Army Chief of Staff Van Tien Dung, are gaining supremacy in the Vietnamese Politburo...