Word: arvid
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Latvia has always had stronger ties to Moscow than have the other two republics. Latvian Riflemen made up the Kremlin's elite Praetorian Guard in the years after the Bolshevik Revolution, and party boss Arvid Pelshe became a fixture of the Brezhnev gerontocracy. Latvian First Secretary Janis Vagris, who gained his post last October when Boris Pugo was promoted to Moscow's Party Control Committee, is viewed by many as a compromise choice whose views on reform and political pluralism are acceptable to party conservatives...
...downturn is at least partly the result of selling so many cars in the past few years. "The fleet is quite young, the warranties are longer, and the quality is better. People don't feel a pressing need for new cars," says Arvid Jouppi, who follows the industry for Keane Securities in Detroit. The boom has flooded the market with used cars, which are now selling at a steep discount, making them a more attractive alternative to new models. A two-year- old Ford Tempo, for example, sells for $3,500 less than...
...banner 1987, this year's pot promised to be huge. But the 3,700 employees, many of whom rented limousines and dressed in their finest Saturday-night steppin'-out clothes to attend the Jan. 16 ceremony, had no idea just how huge. Amid gasps of surprise, Andersen Chairman Arvid Wellman disclosed that the profit-sharing pool was a record $105.9 million, up more than 45% from last year. On Feb. 1 all workers will receive checks amounting to 84% of their annual salary. The average check: $28,620, based on a salary...
Despite his elevation to the presidency last week, Andropov appears to be still moving cautiously. With the death of Arvid Pelshe last month, the Politburo was reduced to eleven members, compared with 14 only 17 months ago. Contrary to expectations, Andropov did not fill the vacancies. His reluctance to do so suggests that powerful factions may be trying to curb Andropov's power to pack the Politburo with men loyal to him. Says a Western diplomat: "He's not as strong as Brezhnev was. He didn't get his way, or the jobs would have been filled...
...DIED. Arvid Pelshe, 84, Latvian Communist who was the oldest member of the Soviet Union's ruling Politburo and, as the token representative of the Baltic states, perhaps its least influential; after a long illness. Last of the old Bolsheviks who played a leading role in the October Revolution of 1917, Pelshe worked as a secret policeman and political commissar; when the Soviet army occupied his country in 1940, he became one of its new rulers. Elevated to the Politburo in 1966, Pelshe headed the Party Control Committee, which oversees the discipline of party members. His death reduces membership...