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Ustinov, who had been rumored to be ill for several months, was the first civilian to head the Soviet military since Leon Trotsky. He personified the principle that the Soviet armed forces must ultimately be the servant of the Communist Party. Still, during his eight years in the post, the military appeared to have gained unprecedented influence within the Kremlin. Politburo Member Grigori Romanov, 61, was named head of Ustinov's funeral committee, prompting speculation that he would become Defense Minister. But Moscow announced on Saturday that Marshal Sergei L. Sokolov, 73, would replace Ustinov...
...California, paintings of power and torture by Leon Golub...
...does it place one with Pinochet to speak of taste? Most political artists offer values that seem hardly more nuanced than the New Masses cartoons of the 1930s: Manichaean Punch-and-Judy shows of good and evil, projecting ideological stereotypes onto schematically experienced realities. But one striking exception is Leon Golub...
...York Times/CBS News exit poll, a larger percentage of voters between the ages of 18 and 24 cast ballots for the President than did any other age group, and for the first time since the New Deal, more of them identify themselves as Republicans than Democrats. Says California Congressman Leon Panetta, a Democrat: "You have to attribute the size of the President's victory to something beyond the fact that he's a nice guy. Certainly it implies there's more of a conservative edge on what we're dealing with...
Investigations of Donovan by the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office in New York and Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman produced no indictments. Silverman, while expressing concern over the "disturbing" number of allegations against Donovan, had concluded after two separate probes that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to accuse the Secretary of having broken any federal laws...