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...Kicked upstairs to a party secretaryship was Supreme Economic Council Chairman (since 1963) Dmitry F. Ustinov. Replacing him was onetime State Planner Vladimir Novikov, 58. Ustinov's other post as First Deputy Premier went to a Byelorussian apparatchik, Kirill T. Mazurov, 50. Though Khrushchev's old ideological czar, Leonid Ilyichev, was also bumped aside, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev laid most emphasis on the agricultural mess...
...powerful party leaders' committee, which makes him the closest thing to deputy leader known in the Tory Party. Maudling's former job as shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer went to Ted Heath, who also continues as shadow Economics Minister-making him the Tories' undisputed economic czar. Thus, while Maudling stands higher in the party hierarchy, Heath is in position to shine in the Commons on the most important domestic political occasions...
...turn up close to Castro on the podium at important functions, outranked only by Little Brother Raul, Che Guevara and Bias Roca. In 1962 Rodriguez took over from Fidel as agrarian-reform director and boss of the island's sugar industry-in effect Cuba's economic czar. As Cuba's econ omy continued to fall apart and Castro's relations with Moscow cooled, Rodriguez lost some of his power-over the fishing industry, water resources, and finally the whole sugar industry...
...another with high treason. The Americans, generally as collegiate as Atherton (his qualifications: Princeton courses in "Great Ideas of the West" and "Great Ideas of the East"), try to turn it into low comedy. To no noticeable avail. The humor, clearly intended to be revisionist Ninotchkci, is virtually pre-Czar...
...plan into practice, they feared that he was trying to become a railroad czar. In the House of Com mons last week, Minister of Transport Tom Fraser said that Beeching's offer to make a comprehensive study of all transportation problems "would not be practical," and Labor members demanded that unions be brought in on decisions to lay off workers and shut down lines. Beeching would brook no such interference. When he failed to win assurances of a hands-off policy, he dumped the whole railroad problem into the lap of Labor...