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Eddie Delahoussaye, only the fourth jockey ever to ride back-to-back Kentucky Derby winners, patted Sunny's Halo's neck just as he had Gato del Sol's last year: two terrific horses. Ten years ago exactly, Secretariat spoiled horses for people. When he romped around the track, the trees swayed. A showy chestnut with three white stockings, he made it necessary to reissue Writer Joe Palmer's perfect description of Man o' War: "As near to a living flame as horses ever get." Actually, Secretariat came to the Kentucky Derby off a defeat...
According to Waldemar Swirgon, a Communist Party youth worker recently promoted to the Party Secretariat, Oasis has been attempting to set up programs that exceed its role as a religious organization...
Anxious to stay in the government, the Communists have made numerous concessions to Mitterrand. Party Leader Georges Marchais and his comrades on the seven-member secretariat have grudgingly accepted policies of economic austerity that have, among other things, imposed wage restraints on their predominantly working-class constituency. After Mitterrand expressed firm support for NATO's decision to deploy new missiles in Western Europe, Marchais dutifully declared that "the Communist Party has wholly adopted the policy of the French government in which we participate...
...police chief to hold the nation's highest post. Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, surmounted that obstacle last November, when he was chosen by the Communist Party's Central Committee to succeed Brezhnev. Andropov was relieved of his job as KGB chief six months earlier and moved to the party Secretariat, but the bureaucratic fig leaf deceived...
...traveled the world on ceremonial missions, projecting the preferred Soviet image of stolid gray; in Kiev. The son of a foundry worker, Podgorny had a lackluster early career as a bureaucrat in the Ukraine before being brought into the Politburo in 1960 and into the Secretariat of the Central Committee in 1963. As Nikita Khrushchev's loyal protégé, he seemed his probable successor, but following Khrushchev's 1964 ouster, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev elbowed Podgorny into the largely powerless presidency and ultimately jettisoned him altogether...