Word: transfers
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Although these reports seemed based on journalistic crystal gazing, there was no doubt that Brezhnev was indisposed and incommunicado. If Brezhnev should be too sick to rule, who would replace him? The answer may prove as problematical as the tangled mechanics of the transfer of power in the U.S.S.R. Although a General Secretary is supposedly elected by the 241 full members of the Central Committee, in practice he is designated by 27 men, members of the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat. In the past, this elite has scarcely been inclined to invest real power in any single individual...
Some Kremlin watchers are not so sure. British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz contends that any Brezhnev illness would be bound to touch off a power struggle in the Kremlin, if only because the Russians have never solved the problem of how to transfer authority in an orderly succession. According to this logic, competing factions in the Kremlin would try to exploit Brezhnev's physical weakness by pinning any recent policy failures on him as a pretext to seize power. Columbia University Political Scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, as well as many Moscow-based diplomats, speculate that the party chief has already come...
...Last year, for example, the Kranhacarore Indians of Mato Grosso state were moved to a plot of land away from their ancestral area but still only a few miles from the new road. Within ten months, Indian men were begging on the construction sites. Eventually, the government had to transfer the demoralized Kranhacarore away from the construction sites to Mato Grosso's 13,750 sq.mi. Xingu National Park...
Never before in history has such an immense transfer of wealth and power come about so abruptly as in the past two years. For the first time in memory our very life-styles are affected by the decisions of a handful of foreign rulers. King Faisal is definitely the Man of the Year...
...more details of the domestic spying surfaced, Colby continued his shakeup of the CIA. He had forced the resignation of James Angleton, 57, Counter-Intelligence's director for 20 years. Three of Angleton's top staff members retired last week rather than face demotion and transfer. They are: Angleton's chief deputy, Raymond Rocca, Executive Officer William J. Hood and Chief of Operations Newton S. Miller...