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...concussion and still required another 10 days of convalescence), denounced Ryzhkov and "the sinking Union government." Nonetheless, he held out an olive twig to the President. Gorbachev, Yeltsin felt, remains "open to dialogue" even if the relationship between the two rivals is "unstable." Not so magnanimous was Grigori Yavlinsky, a young economist who helped draft the 500-Day Plan. He offered to quit on the spot, arguing that the federal government's higher prices for grain procurement would lead to an inflation spiral. Yeltsin phrased that concern more colorfully not long ago. Trying to reconcile Kremlin caution with the market...
...Khint case was not the real issue, according to Gdlyan's colleague, Ivanov, 37. During a televised debate Ivanov, who was running for a Leningrad seat in the legislature, said Gdlyan was suspended because his investigations had begun to implicate leading officials, including Ligachev and former Politburo members Grigori Romanov and Mikhail Solomentsev...
...large, delegates refrained from discussing Soviet foreign policy. The exception was the eight-year war in Afghanistan, which was criticized as a misguided Brezhnev-era adventure by two speakers, Editor Grigori Baklanov and Economist Yevgeni Primakov. But Gorbachev was applauded when he defended the performance of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The commander of the Soviet forces there, Lieut. General Boris Gromov, told the conference that "we have performed our duty with honor...
Even so, he had opposition. Grigori Romanov, the hard-line former Leningrad party boss who was once thought to be Gorbachev's chief rival, had apparently given up on winning the top job for himself. But at the Politburo session called immediately after Chernenko's death, Romanov reportedly tried a stop- Gorbachev maneuver, nominating Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin for General Secretary. By some accounts, however, KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov hinted that his agency had compiled dossiers on corruption in the Moscow party apparatus that could be highly embarrassing to Grishin. (Chebrikov was then a candidate member of the Politburo...
...four, all members of the Politburo, are Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 75, Heavy Industry Boss Grigori Romanov, 62, Premier of the Russian Republic Vitali Vorotnikov, 59, and First Deputy Premier Geidar Aliyev, 61. They will probably form the core of the collective leadership that will guide Gorbachev in the beginning. With the exception of Gromyko, a full member of the Politburo for twelve years, they are Gorbachev's contemporaries, members of the long-awaited new generation of Soviet leaders. The generational distinction may mean less in the future than it has in the past, however, largely because Gorbachev shrewdly deferred...