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Belarus now maintains corporate offices in New York and sales headquarters in Milwaukee. Twenty-one salesmen call on a network of 115 dealers (most of whom also sell U.S.-made tractors and farm-machinery products). Belarus' top executive is President Konstantin Shartanov, 36, a graduate of Moscow's Academy for Foreign Trade, but in the best tradition of multinational capitalism is run largely by host-country citizens: John Chambers is general manager and James Kelly director of dealer development. "We are very conscious of the bottom line," says Chambers, and he is motivating his salesmen and dealers with...
...unhitching of Podgorny from the troika may also have been Brezhnev's first step in breaking up the ruling hierarchy. Also dismissed last week was Konstantin Katushev, 49, once the youngest member of the powerful Secretariat of the Central Committee, who was believed to be on a meteoric rise. Katushev apparently lost favor for having organized last June's summit meeting of Europe's Communist parties, at which several party bosses flaunted their independence from Moscow. His replacement is Konstantin Rusakov, 68, a Brezhnev protégé with long experience in Eastern Europe who may have...
...normal life," planned to write a book on political terrorism and to lecture in Holland and the U.S. He also expressed fears for the new crop of dissidents he left behind. The KGB has begun to use "Mafia methods," he said, citing the recent fatal mugging of Poet Konstantin Boga-tyryov, the Russian translator of Rainer Maria Rilke who had protested against Soviet civil rights violations. While the scholar was dying of a fractured skull in the hospital, Amalrik went on, KGB agents ordered the doctors to "fix him so he will come out an idiot," then threatened the physicians...
...party meeting, the story goes, he asked his colleagues to vote with their left hands, then demanded all the expensive foreign watches revealed on their raised arms. But Shevardnadze has not been able to curb all the wheeling and dealing in Georgia. Recently, Georgian Minister of Home Affairs Konstantin Ketiladze called for a "merciless fight" against profiteers and warned that "readers should not be under the false impression that the problem has been solved." The Kremlin's economic planners need no convincing: Georgia, where much of the people's effort is devoted to nonofficial pursuits, is a chronic...
...acted for Brezhnev during his recent illnesses. Kiril Mazurov, 61, at present Kosygin's standin, is expected to inherit the premiership. Potential second-stage succes sors to Brezhnev's job include such relative youngsters as Fyodor Kulakov, 58, who supervises agriculture for the par ty, and Konstantin Katushev, 48, the Party Secretary in charge of keeping East European parties in line...