Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russia's rulers next week will stage one of the regime's most important political extravaganzas in some time?the 24th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. The Congress was to have been held in early 1970. It was delayed for a full year, indicating that the eleven-man Politburo, which constitutes Russia's collective leadership, has been locked in debate over some issues of major significance to the future direction of the world's second most powerful nation. The most important of these issues is bound to be whether and how the Soviet Union, in order to fulfill...
Soviet Help. Gierek's maneuver seemed to defuse the dangerous situation. But then the Lodz workers struck, demanding a 16% wage increase and better working conditions. Gierek sent Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz and three other Politburo members to reason with the workers. After several sessions, including one that lasted until 4 a.m., the officials returned to Warsaw with no settlement in sight...
...principal authors of the plan were Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, who personally signed the report in a departure from tradition as one more demonstration of his paramountcy within the Politburo, and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Among the goals...
...giant Warski shipyards verged on rebellion. Angered by what they considered the new government's slow pace in answering their grievances, they staged slowdowns and drafted a list of 2,000 demands. Among them: pay increases, release of rioters still held in jail, and the removal of some Politburo members...
...further move to create public trust, Gierek has ordered the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Central Committee to meet weekly and make public a resume of their discussions. He has discouraged the adulation normally conferred on a party chief. Though Gomulka's portrait has come down from office walls throughout Poland, the new boss has told aides that they can put up pictures of the Polish eagle or Lenin, but not of Edward Gierek...