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...Communist fight against the French and the Americans and who later went on to hold senior government posts during the postwar era; in Hanoi. "I am both a revolutionary and a poet," Huu once wrote. "For me, poems are a weapon for the revolution." A member of the Elite Politburo, Huu was a former Deputy Prime Minister...
...Armitage's meeting aren't known, but there are plenty of other signs that China's patience is running thin. In October, when North Korea disclosed that it was pursuing nuclear weapons development, China's Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi presented a stern position paper to the all-powerful Politburo. In the past, such memorandums have cast North Korean behavior as reasonable. This time, however, Wang introduced the damning phrase "diplomatic adventurism" to describe Pyongyang's tactics, according to a Chinese policymaker familiar with the contents...
...West Wing stands for anything, it's power. Former denizens contend that the placement of offices around the President's Oval forms a power chart similar to the old Kremlin reviewing stand, where Stalin's rankings of his Politburo members were measured by how close to him they stood during parades. Roger Porter, who served as an aide to three Presidents in the West Wing, notes that Homeland Security head Tom Ridge is only a few steps down the hall from President Bush's office--"a good measure of the President's priorities...
...going anywhere quietly. If anything, his retirement home is looking like China's new seat of authority. He retains the title of President until the legislature meets in March, and he remains commander in chief of the country's military indefinitely. More importantly, Jiang has stacked the Politburo's Standing Committee?the Party's most powerful body?with so many of his cronies that it appears the Party's ballyhooed transition to a younger generation of leaders has effectively been thwarted. Jiang even engineered an expansion of the Standing Committee from seven to nine members, presumably so he could...
...Communist Party to embrace the market and accept entrepreneurs as members. Jiang's speech came as party delegates met to choose new leaders. Vice President Hu Jintao is expected to take over as President, but Jiang is likely to preserve his power by placing allies in the ruling Politburo. COLOMBIA Get Out of Jail Free A judge freed Gilberto Rodri-guez Orejuela for good behavior, after the former boss of the notorious Cali cocaine cartel had served just seven years of his 17-year sentence for smuggling drugs to the United States. The Colombian government ordered an investigation into Judge...