Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev whispered in the gallery behind the rostrum, Chief Soviet Planner Nikolai Baibakov manfully defended the progress of the current 1965-70 five-year plan. He conceded that next year there would be only a modest wage increase of 3% for factory and office workers and 4.6% for collective farmers. Nevertheless, Baibakov boasted that in comparison with 15 years ago, "every 100 families in 1970 will have 71 radios as against 61, 52 washing machines as against 21, and 32 refrigerators instead of only eleven." His list, however, could not mask...
...narrow streets, wrinkled old Chinese selling vegetables, white matrons walking with their arms full of laundry, families of tourists admiring the shops and looking for a Chinese restaurant. People smile, stop and talk on the street; it is predictably peaceful. But in Portsmouth Square, 200 people mill around a rostrum. On the platform are an army bugler, a line of speakers and a big sign that says...
...more liberal, urban-oriented New Democratic Party, and they feared that Park and his rural-based Democratic Republican Party were trying to perpetuate their control indefinitely. When Park sought approval from the National Assembly to hold a national referendum, the opposition New Democrats seized the speaker's rostrum in the red-carpeted Assembly chamber and refused to yield it through four days of 24-hour debates. Finally, the Democratic Republicans and a few independent Assemblymen slipped next door to an annex and at 2 a.m. passed the bill 122 to 0. The opposition wailed that "democracy is dead...
Nixon got the message. While the Joint Chiefs, backing their general in Viet Nam, still urged that the trials be held, Nixon sent Resor to the rostrum to kill the charges and set the Berets free. The claim that the CIA would not allow its agents to testify was only a pretext-and a transparently clumsy one at that-for calling the whole thing...
...case, the line-up on the dais in Peking's Tienanmen Square next week should be revealing. At that time, the Chinese government will celebrate its 20th anniversary. If Mao, the author of China's revolution, is well, he will be on the rostrum. If he does not show, there will be a strong reason to believe that People's China will begin its third decade with new leadership...