Word: apparatchik
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Prime Minister Doku Zavgayev, 55, a former communist apparatchik installed by the Kremlin on Nov. 1, was being driven in a heavily guarded motorcade through the ruined capital of Grozny when his car was rocked by two powerful bomb blasts, then sprayed with automatic-weapons fire. Zavgayev and five others were only slightly wounded. It was another demonstration, if any more were needed, that despite Russia's overwhelming military power in the tattered Caucasian republic, the Kremlin is failing in its campaign to impose a peace settlement on the rebels...
...Deng himself put it. But once Deng is gone, rivals within the group can be expected to go gunning for Jiang, and he will have to fight to stay on top. Many China experts predict that Jiang will not prevail in an all-out test of strength. The affable apparatchik has been nicknamed Weather Vane because he tends to swing with the prevailing political wind...
Given the nature of the war in the Balkans and his own history, Milosevic is clearly a dicey partner. A communist apparatchik under Tito whose parents both committed suicide, he rose to significance in the party as head of the gas monopoly and the largest state bank. He made his political mark in 1987 with a fiery speech to the Serb minority in the province of Kosovo. Many consider that speech the beginning of his rise to power, as well as of the Serbs' nationalist passion and the wars that were inspired...
...Chechen debacle aside, things are not going well in the economy. Foreign investors are spooked by signs that the government is backsliding on economic reform. First there was Vladimir Polevanov, the ex-apparatchik named by Yeltsin to manage privatization, who instead announced a return to state ownership. Yeltsin fired him, but Polevanov's views are held by others. ``He wasn't a lonely voice out there,'' cautions a Western official...
Some detractors, however, view her as an apparatchik dutifully carrying out Clinton's policy. Others carp at her penchant for television -- the President has personally ordered her to appear as often as possible -- suggesting it reflects a superficial approach to foreign-policy issues. ("Ambassador Halfbright" is whispered by several adversaries in U.N. corridors.) Hypersensitive U.N. diplomats also resent her absence from the U.N. party circuit, but she pleads too little time "to go schmoozing around the halls." "The people I work with appreciate the fact that I'm plugged into Washington," she says. "I'm in the inner circle...