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...benefited most from Andropov's favor was Vitali Vorotnikov, 57, the second new member on the enlarged 13-man Politburo. Appointed deputy premier of the Russian Republic in 1975, Vorotnikov was shunted off to Cuba as ambassador in 1979 after he apparently angered Brezhnev by calling for a crackdown on official corruption. Four months before Brezhnev's death, Vorotnikov was summoned home. At last June's Central Committee meeting, he was awarded a nonvoting seat on the Politburo, only to catapult last week into the inner circle ahead of five more senior men. Said a Western diplomat...
...successor Yuri Andropov launched a campaign against high-level corruption. Last week TASS announced that Sokolov had been sentenced to death and that four of his assistants were given long prison terms. Stiff penalties for corruption are not infrequent in the Soviet Union, but before Andropov's crackdown they were rarely imposed on someone as well connected as Sokolov...
Smith was in Boston for the entire day, during which he appeared at a press conference on the Administration's drug crackdown, as well as Tatts University, he received an award as "Conservative of the Year" from the school's conservative newspaper. The Primary Source...
Despite the crackdown, the 40 million-member Communist Party has gone out of its way to avoid raising memories of the other purges that have scarred China's recent history. Said an official editorial last week: "Any campaign or drive like those of the past is strongly banned. Civilized methods must be used to correct uncivilized behavior." Meanwhile, the government's new assault on "bourgeois" decadence has perplexingly coincided with, and sometimes overlapped, its official month-old purge against diehard leftists and other remnants of the Cultural Revolution. As the ruling party has taken one step...
...only is such a crackdown unjustified and inefficient, it also has a demoralizing side effect. Art Buchwald, in his latest book, jokes about an administration official who lunched with a reporter to find out what his department was doing. The government's attempts to keep its operations secret have created situations such that informed journalists know more about what happens in the government than the government itself. It was sad to discover that when journalists asked spokesman Larry Speakes about the Grenada invasion, he was forced to lie, not knowing that the invasion was at that moment taking place...