Word: communique
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large Communist conference was held was in 1960, when 81 party leaders-including those from China, Albania and Cuba-came to Moscow at the Russians' invitation. Though China was even then embarked on a bellicose course, it was cooperative enough to sign the meeting's final communiqué. This time at least 15 parties will boycott the conference. China, of course, is not coming. Albania would rather send a delegate to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. North Korea and North Viet Nam are not expected to show because they fear losing Chinese aid and diplomatic support. Cuba...
...only a temporary save; not even the Kremlin wanted to openly defy the groundswell of popular disenchantment with Novotný in Czechoslovakia. Last week the party's 200-man plenum, the Central Committee, met and declared the end for Novotný. Though its communiqué allowed him to "resign" and mechanically praised his accomplishments, the plenum fired Novotný as party leader, the country's most powerful post, leaving him only in the figurehead role of President. Into Novotný's place stepped the man who engineered the ouster. He is Alexander...
Tito and Ceauseşcu may have decided on a common strategy to discourage the conference, but it was not disclosed in the final communiqué, which spoke only of "the comradely atmosphere of the talks." The communiqué was also discreet enough not to mention the number of deer that each man had bagged in the hunt. Ceauseşcu, whatever his gifts as a statesman, is known to be a much poorer shot than his more experienced revisionist colleague...
...industry-inadvertently involved in last June's Arab-Israeli war-last week issued its first battle communiqués. They were remarkable: rather than having lost money during more-or-less temporary Arab oil embargoes against the U.S., the American companies made comfortable profits...
Elsewhere, in other battles, U.S. corporations reported good and bad results. Among the communiqu...