Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...odds are against such hopes being realized. One reason is that the present leadership and the leadership system as a whole work against dynamism. A management team that cannot, or will not, transfer power to a younger generation of executives except by the attrition of mortality is by definition guilty of mismanagement. The Brezhnev Politburo is like an aging board of directors that has no compulsory retirement policy, no adequate pension plan and no tradition of honoring emeritus directors. So each board member hangs on and on, becoming increasingly shortsighted as he becomes increasingly sclerotic. Such a corporation, no matter...
...huge billboards, on buildings and highway overpasses, proclaiming in white letters on red backgrounds, SLAVA TRUDU! (Glory to Labor!) and SLAVA KPSS! (Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union!). But pedestrians and motorists ignore the slogans. Virtually no one ever uses the word slava in everyday conversation, except in the very common phrase, Slava Bogu, which means "Glory be to God." Yet the state goes right on repainting the billboards every year...
...people who have each been members for three years, and pass other screening procedures, including serving a year on probation. Of the 193 million citizens who were 18 and older in 1979, only 16 million, or 9%, were party members. (In Khrushchev's day the figure was 6%.) Except for a few scientific administrators, virtually every responsible official in the Soviet government is a party member. Although it is impossible to separate party from government, one point is clear: the party makes policy...
...past two years, to roughly $1.25 per gal. Plans to expand car production beyond the present million-a-year level have been shelved; talk of building a second large automobile and truck factory has ceased; and Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, has printed lengthy exhortations to conserve energy. Except at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, where many foreign flights arrive, jets of Aeroflot, the national airline, no longer use their own engines to taxi into takeoff position; to save fuel, they are towed into position by tractors. NATO radar bases report that Soviet air force training flights, already 30% below...
Dunayev says that no official reads his scripts before they are broadcast and that nothing is off bounds except military secrets. His commentary, of course, has a decided pro-Soviet tilt, but Dunayev insists that he cleaves to the truth. Says he: "The most important thing is to be objective, not for the sake of objectivity -I am a Communist and believe in my ideals-but because we have to prepare people for the real facts...