Word: baibakov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year's 3.8%) through sharply increased productivity. The drafting was no easy task, Gorbachev told a meeting of the Communist Party's Central Committee, because "not all of our managers have broken away from inertia, from old approaches." One such mossback, presumably, was 74-year-old Nikolai Baibakov, who was ousted as the head of Gosplan, the Soviet economic planning committee. He was replaced by Nikolai Talyzin, 56, a former telecommunications engineer who was Moscow's representative to Comecon, the East bloc's common market. Also leaving the top leadership is Nikolai Tikhonov, 80, who retired from the Politburo...
When the name Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was first mentioned by Economic Planning Chief Nikolai Baibakov, an uneasy silence engulfed the hall. The speakers who followed made frequent references to Andropov and praised his Central Committee report; the 1,500 delegates listened silently or chatted among themselves. Finally, a resolution blaming the U.S. for "the drastic aggravation of the situation in the world" and supporting Andropov's foreign policy position was put forward, and the parliamentarians raised their arms in unison to approve...
...warning seemed to confirm recent Western intelligence assessments that the Soviets had temporarily shelved the idea of military intervention in favor of economic pressures. The presence in Warsaw last week of a high-level Soviet trade delgation, headed by Planning Chief Nikolai Baibakov, made that theory seem all the more credible...