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...alternate members of the Politburo also lost their posts: Vladimir I. Dolgikh and Pyotr N. Demichev...
Brezhnev rites suggests, Andropov could conceivably fill as many as four seats with his own supporters. He may enlist some "younger" recruits among the nine nonvoting members of the Politburo, including Heavy Industry Specialist Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, and Cultural Watchdog Pyotr Demichev...
...merits for Soviet society was reached, Russian jazz buffs were encouraged. Among other things going for them: Kosygin has one of the largest jazz record collections inside Russia. More important, the duumvirate fired Khrushchev's hated chief ideologue Leonid Ilyichev, replaced him with Party Secretary Petr Demichev. Demichev has informed Soviet artists and writers that the party will no longer interfere in matters of style, though it still retains the threat to clamp down on "nonSocialist content." Today a Socialist abstract painting is not a target of automatic denunciation. Such Western authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike...
...competent and less interested. Their primary problem, the quarrel with Peking, has hardly been softened, despite a peace-making trip by Kosygin to Red China, and the Kremlin has even less control over Eastern Europe's "satellites" than did Khrushchev in his final years. In a recent speech, Demichev went so far as to explicitly endorse the independence of every Communist state; unlike Khrushchev, the new leaders know how to keep a dignified silence in the face of Peking's catcalls, which has at least kept their family quarrel slightly more private. They are clearly caught...
...PETR NIKOLAEVICH DEMICHEV, 46, Secretariat member and chief overseer of Russia's chemical and light industries, was elevated to alternate Presidium membership. A dandy with high-piled hair and a low-keyed manner, Demichev is a chemical engineer by training, shared with Kosygin the responsibility for developing the consumer-goods industry, which Khrushchev chose to emphasize late in his career. Demichev's promotion is an indication of the continued importance Moscow's new regime attaches to chemicals and consumer goods, no heavy-industry "metal eater" was promoted...
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