Word: praesidium
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...Noor Mohammed Taraki's Marxist coup in 1978, the 20-member Cabinet includes three politicians from outside the card-carrying ranks of the ruling Communist People's Democratic Party, as well as five senior military officers. Four of the officers were also named to the seven-member Praesidium, the main executive body. The government grandly announced the disbanding of the dread KAM secret police, which it said Hafizullah Amin had used for "his own criminal ends." The gesture was not likely to fool many Afghans, however, because the same announcement made it clear that the new intelligence service...
Also it was announced that Anastas I. Mikoyan, 70, grand old man of the Bolsheviks after 48 years in Soviet politics, resigned from his largely ceremonial job as President of the Praesidium, the Soviet Parliament, because of ill health. He was replaced by Podgerny...
...grim, quiet East German left his house in East Berlin a fortnight ago and made his way to the Praesidium der Volkspolizei for a pass to enter the Western zone. A three-month pass was duly handed over, and he was not surprised, for Dr. Kurt Scharf, 58, is chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany-the highest post in German Protestantism-and his wife and four children live in the Western zone, where he has been visiting them about once a week...
...believe the Communists would not hesitate at all to bomb New York, Washington, or any of our great cities. However . . . in the case of our H-bomb war, Malenkov and the Praesidium would stand an excellent chance of being among the first victims. I presume even Communists have some affection for their children and perhaps even for their wives. As the Negro spiritual has it: "There ain't no hidin' place down here." Those men would not be willing to die, not even that Communism might live . . . JANE L. WRENCH Columbia...
...sobrii et severi crant, iam in theatro mirifice sunt amoris imperatores facti. Eheu, quam proterve K. Vadum Fractum, lascivi suboles gregis, iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus...