At the sixth party plenum in March 1989, he was elevated to full central committee member.

A party plenum resulted in a victory for the right wing: it approved a highly self-critical report, published in the party newspaper Ittihad ash-Sha'ab.

Complaints about him were circulating before the party plenum at which he spoke so vehemently.

Mr. Zhivkov, at a party plenum last spring, acknowledged that "no significant breakthrough has been achieved" in putting his 1987 plans into effect.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev joined in: "Let's be frank," he told a 1990 party plenum of his worry about Boris N. Yeltsin's calls for decentralization.

President Fidel Castro led the closed two-day party plenum, the first since 1992.

A party plenum will be held here after the Asian Games, and changes may begin at that conclave.

Following the memorable Communist party plenum that dismissed Khrushchev in 1964, people began calling him "father of the Thaw".

Hanoi's Hard Line on Dissent "There will be a swapping of posts by the top three or four at this party plenum or the congress," a diplomat said.

At a party plenum in February and March, the communist leadership voted to merge the Albanian and Yugoslav economies and militaries.