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This week's Central Committee meeting and the parliament session were called in haste, indicating Gorbachev may have decided to act before opposition to the personnel changes could gel. The meetings brought officials like Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov scurrying back to Moscow from trips abroad...
UNITED NATIONS--Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said yesterday that the pullout of more than 100,000 Red Army troops from Afghanistan has been suspended because of alleged violations of a U.N.-negotiated accord...
...Europe. In place of its quest for superiority over the West in numbers of weapons and troops, Gorbachev is demanding that the armed forces make do with a "reasonable sufficiency." To assure success, Gorbachev has reshuffled the military high command and silenced opponents of reform. Last week Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, a key Gorbachev ally, called for the Supreme Soviet to supervise "all departments occupied with the military and military-industrial activity." Such control is now believed to rest with the Defense Council...
...texts are only one part of a larger revolution in the general outlook of Soviet education. "The main task of the changes is to make school more humanitarian, to give up the technocratic view that only technical upbringing is necessary," explains Eduard Dneprov of the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences...
...Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to abolish medium-and short-range nuclear missiles. Only a few weeks ago, hopes were fading that a skeptical U.S. Senate would ratify the treaty in time for the summit. But prospects brightened when Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze were able to work out last-minute questions about verification...