Word: troika
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...with Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Then it was all aboard again for a visit by the Russians to East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht before heading back home. The bland communiques issued at each stop hardly illuminated what pressing business could have made fellow travelers of the Kremlin troika...
...large Communist parties-as France and Italy did after World War II-does not necessarily subvert democracy. In Laos, the U.S. and other nations agreed with the Communists in 1962 to set up a left-right-center coalition government and, much to everyone's surprise, that tenuous troika is still rattling along...
...first secretary and chief whip behind North Viet Nam's attempt to seize South Viet Nam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, 56, the Defense Minister and man in charge of North Viet Nam's armed forces, would almost certainly join Dong and Le Duan in any leadership troika...
Died. Adolf Lohse, 65, German financial wizard and longtime (1945 until retirement in October) top executive of the Siemens Group, maker of all things electric; of a heart attack; in Neugrünwald, Germany. Senior member of the group's managing troika, Lohse masterminded Siemens' recovery from wartime ruin to second biggest in Germany (after Volkswagen), ranging the world's markets with everything from appliances to computers...
Nowadays, the balance in the troika is such that no one man is likely to impose his will against the others. A majority vote in the Politburo decides policy on many issues. Even Brezhnev was dealt a setback recently when the Politburo cut back by 13% his fiveyear, $45 billion crash investment program in agriculture. Kosygin was reported to have opposed bringing Sinyavsky and Daniel to trial but to have been outvoted by his colleagues. The move toward high-level democratization has in no way been institutionalized, however, and it is still possible that one man could again gather...