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...Geidar Aliyev, 60, from the Muslim Transcaucasian Republic of Azerbaijan, is the most prominent of the other young contenders. Shortly after Andropov succeeded Brezhnev, Aliyev was promoted to full Politburo membership and named First Deputy Premier. Even if Aliyev is passed over, says Cornell's Rush, "he certainly has a future as somebody's strong-arm lieutenant...
...announce airplane, train or boat accidents. Thus many Soviet television viewers were taken by surprise last week when newscasters read an official statement that the Alexander Suvorov had been "wrecked" the day before with "loss of life." The Kremlin also announced that First Deputy Premier and Politburo Member Geidar Aliyev was leading a commission to investigate the accident. The statement did not give any casualty figures. The following day, however, a representative from Intourist, the state travel agency, provided a few unofficial details. He speculated that the ship's pilot may have steered the boat off course or misjudged...
Gromyko is the second top-level deputy to Tikhonov who has been appointed under Andropov. At a meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet last November, onetime Azerbaijan KGB Chief and Party Leader Geidar Aliyev, 59, was also moved into the government's ruling inner circle. Gromyko's elevation to the same rank as Aliyev may have been intended to check the ambitious Azerbaijani...
...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