Word: aliyev
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...citizens are calling Operation Trawl tracks down truant workers who show up late at the factory, Andropov is seeking to free his creaking bureaucracy of its habitual corruption. Since assuming office, he has reshuffled some 20 top officials and summarily dismissed six others. He pointedly chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone civil police with his successor at the KGB, General Vitali Fedorchuk...
Most of Andropov's major appointments to date seem designed to consolidate KGB power further. He elevated onetime Azerbaijan KGB Chief Geidar Aliyev, 59, to the key post of Deputy Premier. He sent Vitali Fedorchuk, 64, who replaced Andropov as KGB chief last year, over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which
Beissinger: Some of the steps Mr. Andropov has taken so far also would indicate that he is trying to assert more control over the bureaucracy. One of those steps is the promotion of Mr. Aliyev--who was head of the Party in Ascrbaijan (a Union Republic located in Trunscaueasia) and before that chief of the KGB in Aserbaijan--to First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers. He achieved a better record of economic performance in Aserbaijan largely through greater control he asserted over the bureaucracy. That particular promotion [of Mr. Aliyev] may indicate the path Mr. Andropov will follow...
Azerbaijan Party Chief Geidar Ali Rza ogly Aliyev, 59, has been largely ignored by many Western observers, who assumed that a non-Russian would have difficulty rising to the top. His double promotion last week changed that by putting him in line to become the Soviet Union's first Premier from a Muslim republic. Aliyev joined the Soviet security force at 18, and headed the Baku branch of the KGB from 1967 to 1969. As Azerbaijan party leader, he has at tracted attention by cracking down on corruption and making his tiny Caucasian mountain fief into an agricultural success...
Westerners who have met Aliyev find him personable, polished and not one to duck a question. Earlier this year, when a visiting diplomatic delegation in Baku asked him to explain how Brezhnev's new agricultural policy would work, he cockily replied, "These are things we already did months ago in Azerbaijan...