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MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev pulled off a major shake-up of the Communist Party Politburo yesterday, retiring a quarter of the ruling elite in one stroke and promoting his KGB chief and his top economic planner...
Dropped from power was the Ukrainian party chief, Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky, 71; former KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, 66; and Viktor P. Nikonov, 60. Only one pre-Gorbachev appointee is left on the 11 member Politburo...
Promoted were KGB Gen. Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, who presided over a partial opening up of his secrecy bound agency, and economic planning chief Yuri D. Maslyukov...
Gorbachev continued to fill the ruling body with his own men, elevating the new KGB chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, and the head of economic planning, Yuri Maslyukov, to full membership...
Chebrikov had moved from KGB chief last September to a new party position overseeing legal affairs. Nikonov had described himself this year as a deputy to Yegor K. Ligachev on party agricultural policy, and appeared to serve no clear function on the Politburo...