Word: presidium
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...mouse had suddenly decided to roar at a bear. The day after the session, the bear growled back. TASS announced that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., the national legislature, considered the Estonian decisions "at variance with the provisions of the current constitution of the U.S.S.R." The Presidium declared that it would consider the issue at its next meeting and "invited" Estonian representatives to be present...
...radical for their time, made powerful enemies within the collective Soviet leadership. Sergei's tale is also a parable of treachery. Even Anastas Mikoyan, then Soviet President and a putative Khrushchev ally, comes off as a bet hedger who bows to pressure from a web of plotters that includes Presidium ((now called Politburo)) members Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny and Mikhail Suslov, Deputy Premier Alexander Shelepin and KGB chief Vladimir Semichastny...
...keep our conversation a secret," said Arzumanyan hesitantly. "But I can tell you. Various charges have been made against Nikita Sergeyevich. Everyone but Mikoyan has formed a single front. Khrushchev is accused of various sins: the unsatisfactory situation in agriculture, disrespectful treatment of members of the Central Committee Presidium and disregard for their opinions, and many other things...
...accusation that Khrushchev had undervalued other members of the Presidium and was tactless in dealing with them was a serious one. There was a considerable measure of truth in it. Everyone recalled old and new insults...
...meeting in Washington, where its U.S. headquarters is located. Permission to travel is not the only fruit of glasnost for Sakharov, who was forced to live in internal exile in the city of Gorki from 1980 to 1986. He was elected last week to the 47-member presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences -- a far cry from the treatment he experienced during the Brezhnev years, when some members tried to have him stripped of his academy membership for his criticism of the Soviet government...