Word: generalissimo
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...late '40s Shostakovich's symbolic value had accrued so dramatically that he was used to add luster to Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's postwar policies. In 1949 Shostakovich was dispatched to New York City as the star Soviet delegate to a Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, an event sponsored by such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin. The conference was part of a vast Soviet-sponsored peace campaign that was conveniently distracting attention from Stalin's resumption of hostilities against his own people...
...their own civil war and lead separate socialist organizations. Yet throughout, the reader is struck by the dignity and character of ordinary people who endured and prevailed. Theirs is the Blood of Spain, and their total recall is more valuable than any number of academic speculations. The death of Generalissimo Franco has loosened tongues. Doubtless, many new volumes on the Civil War will follow this one. They will have trou ble equaling its power and detail. None will surpass...
Long overshadowed by his father, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Taiwan's President Chiang Ching-kuo, 69, has emerged as a capable, hard-working leader who spends much of his time visiting with citizens of the island republic. In an interview with TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, Chiang expressed considerable optimism about the future of Taiwan. Excerpts...
...height of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's repression of the region, sympathy for ETA ran high among Spain's 2 5 million Basques. But continuing terrorism has eroded that feeling. At present, says Nationalist Party President Garaicoechea: "ETA is not serving the interests of the Basques; instead it is helping the right." Garaicoechea's party wants taxes, social security, education, communications and law-and-order to be the responsibilities of the Basque people within something akin to a federal system. Under the new constitution, Basques are likely to get more of that than they have had in decades...
...since 1938, when Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek shared the title as Man and Wife of the Year, has an Asian been selected Man of the Year. The main story is the work of Senior Writer Lance Morrow, who wrote last year's Man of the Year cover about another foreign leader who acted boldly: Anwar Sadat. Staff Writer Patricia Blake, who learned about Communism as an expert on Soviet affairs, wrote Teng's biography and the article on life in China. Reporter-Researchers Laurie Upson Mamo and Oscar Chiang also contributed to the 21 -page package...