Word: rank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain amount of pluralism in Poland as long as a strong party retained a firm grip on the reins. But therein lies another political hazard-for the Polish party itself seems bent on reversing Leninist orthodoxy. In a watershed decision two weeks ago, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania bowed to rank-and-file demands and announced that delegates to July's party congress would be elected by secret ballot from an unlimited list of candidates. Until now, most delegates were chosen by the party leadership according to the Leninist principle of "democratic centralism"-meaning that power flows from...
...nation. If not, we shall do it by ourselves." That bold assertion drew a standing ovation. Another local party member derided the "merry-go-round" system whereby the same old faces dominated the Politburo. Kania responded by promising personnel changes in the Central Committee and Politburo. Similar rank-and-file pressures for reform appeared to be responsible for new "legal proceedings" that were initiated last week against former Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz. The charge: economic mismanagement...
That, of course, is not the constitutional order of succession; both the Speaker of the House and the President pro tern of the Senate, as elected officials, rank ahead of the Secretary of State. Perhaps realizing his mistake, Haig was annoyed minutes later when Weinberger interrupted Haig's discussion in the Situation Room about the succession provisions of the 25th Amendment. With a slight edge in his voice, Weinberger said jokingly, "Al, we already heard you explain your view of the Constitution." Haig stopped and glared at the Defense Secretary. "You should check the Constitution," Haig replied. Everyone...
King was a man filled with folie de grandeur, saying 'I can fix it.' I said, 'This is rank treason. Out.' " As it happened, King himself soon became the victim of a coup of sorts. Two days after the Mountbatten meeting, he personally penned a vitriolic anti-Wilson editorial in the Daily Mirror, an I.P.C. paper. The company's board of directors was so incensed that King was fired and Cudlipp installed as chairman...
...that since 1966 have repeatedly marred contract talks with miners. Yet after United Mine Workers President Sam Church Jr. finished hammering out a new three-year contract with mineowners belonging to the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association and submitted the pact for ratification to the union's feisty rank and file, the U.M.W.'s 160,000 soft-coal miners overwhelmingly rejected it. Workers and employers then began digging in for what suddenly promised to be a prolonged strike. The longest on record: the U.M.W.'s 111-day walkout in 1977 and early...