The People's Daily reported on the minister's meeting with Zhou Yongkang, a Politburo member of the Communist Party who looks after security and legal affairs, while China Daily reports on Mongolia's wish to boost bilateral co-operation in areas such as mining.

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Given that he was obviously a man of the far left, a communist, a Party member even, he no doubt favored the option of letting the government own and operate our major industries.

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Her first marriage lasted less than two years, but the second, to activist lawyer Carlos Araujo, a prominent member of the Brazilian Communist Party, would stick for nearly three decades.

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Though formerly a Communist Party member, by the end of the 1980s he was an open critic of the Communist Party, and his reputation as an efficient manager led to his being chosen in 1992 for the prime minister's post under Ukraine's first post-communist president, Leonid Kravchuk.

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Once a member of the South African Communist Party, which used to fawn on the Kremlin, he shamelessly switched to capitalism after his predecessors, Mr Mandela and Mr Mbeki, had persuaded the ANC to somersault away from socialism.

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Mr. Yang went on to make his career, first as a journalist and senior editor with the Xinhua News Agency, then as a historian whose unflinching scholarship has brought him into increasing conflict with the Communist Party of which he nonetheless remains a member.

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