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...khaki uniform, decorated with rows of multicolored ribbons, always set him apart from other members of the Politburo at Kremlin receptions. With the notable exception of Leonid Brezhnev, no one else in that select group could have boasted, as he could, of being a marshal of the Soviet armed forces. But for all his military trappings, Defense Minister Dmitri Fedorovich Ustinov, whose death last week at the age of 76 opened up a key post in the Kremlin hierarchy, was a civilian engineer who had never commanded soldiers on the battlefield...
...have this suspicion that academic writers start with a thesis and then marshal evidence to support that. We could have done that," Sullivan adds, "but that's left for others to do, and we hope people will use this book when they...
...battle with hard-liners in the regime who may have staged the abduction to embarrass him. According to the Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu, Jaruzelski received a report on party efforts that would "further strengthen ideological unity" in the Interior Ministry, a sign that he was trying to marshal his forces against hardliners...
...government major says he'll spend much of his free time working on his thesis, a critique of nuclear strategies, and as Class Marshal he'll be busy organizing the Senior Class commencement activities...
...highest echelons, Deng has been supported by Premier Zhao Ziyang and General Secretary Hu Yaobang, but has evidently run into some stiff resistance over the pace of his program from the three other members of the influential Politburo Standing Committee: President Li Xiannian, former Planning Czar Chen Yu and Marshal Ye Jianying, a Communist leader for half a century who may be the last party luminary strong enough to question Deng. Ye has been out of public sight for months, and there have been persistent rumors that he died before the plenum began. The party, according to one version...