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Confined to hospitals or to their homes were Premier Aleksei Kosygin, President Nikolai Podgorny, Communist Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, Trade Union Leader Alexander Shelepin and Deputy Premier Dmitry Polyansky. Such widespread contagion within the U.S.S.R.'s ruling body-some spoke of the "Politburo plague"-revived last month's rumors of a Kremlin shake-up (TIME, March 23). It is, of course, medically possible (if statistically implausible) that all are genuinely ill, especially in view of the advanced age of some of the patients: Kosygin, Podgorny and Suslov are all over 65. But many analysts speculated that Party Chief...
...Another official removed from his post was Aleksei Romanov, chairman of the State Cinematography Committee, better known as the former Soviet intelligence officer who denounced Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1945 and was thus responsible for sending the great novelist to prison and exile for eleven years...
...domestic political-and psychological-need. "Please remember, for us Lenin is an icon," declared a ranking Soviet official. The icon, moreover, serves an up-to-the-minute function. In a year scarred by serious economic shortcomings and rumors of rifts at the top, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin have invoked Lenin's ideas to enhance their collective leadership and his image to associate themselves with the heroic struggles of the past. By emphasizing their identity with Lenin as the authentic interpreter of Marx and the innovator of Socialist power, the Soviet leaders have also sought...
Sihanouk heard of his overthrow from Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Moscow. At first he took the news calmly. A few hours later, just before flying off to Peking for talks with Premier Chou Enlai, he told Cambodian students at Vnukovo II Airport that he might establish an exile government in Moscow or Peking. Earlier, he had sent off a cable to his mother quoting Kosygin as having said: "If the extreme right continues to strike foul blows on our allies, war is inevitable between Cambodia and Viet...
...broken out within the Kremlin. Citing sources in Belgrade and Prague, the article said that three Politburo members-Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, Trade Union Leader Alexander Shelepin and First Deputy Premier Kirill Mazurov -had taken the extreme step of writing a letter that blamed Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin for failures in the Soviet economy...