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...only change Gorbachev indicated mostCommunists would support would be a designation ofthe number two party official as deputy generalsecretary. Such a post has existed only informallyin the past...
...Gorbachev said the issue would be discussedfurther at the congress, scheduled to last untilJuly...
Whatever is decided will not affect Gorbachev's other job as president...
Changes that Gorbachev has proposed would replace the general secretary--his present party title--with a party chair and first secretary. The chair, assisted by a deputy chair, would set overall party direction while the secretary would manage the party's daily affairs...
...keynote speech, Gorbachev said he had learned in discussions with delegates that "a majority of Communists are for the [creation] not of a party chairman and his deputies and the Presidium, but for preserva- tion of the post of general secretary, hisdeputy as a number two party figure, and thePolitburo...