Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steven M. Wise, a member of the mayor's blue ribbon committee on the treatment of animals in Cambridge laboratories, and Gul Agha, founder of the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, submitted proposed ordinances to regulate animal care and use in laboratories to the council for consideration...
...alone, however, still had to collect 50% of the vote. The most prominent victim: Yuri Solovyov, the Communist Party boss of the Leningrad region and a nonvoting member of the Politburo. Though Solovyov ran unopposed, almost two-thirds of the voters crossed out his name, and he lost. The mayor of Kiev also ran unopposed and lost. So did that city's , Communist Party boss...
Indeed, any notion that the election was totally controlled by the Communist bureaucracy was dispelled by the startling list of losers: the mayor of Moscow, the president and prime minister in Lithuania, the party boss in Minsk, the first deputy premier of Belorussia and the admiral of the Pacific fleet of the Soviet navy. Across the nation, almost a third of the party's 129 regional leaders lost. Estonians even had the courage to vote down the republic's KGB chief. The city party leader in Leningrad, running against an unknown 28-year-old shipyard engineer, received only...
Shinkaretsky, who works for state-run Gosteleradio, has no private office, no producer, no staff. His only status symbol: a beeper that he carries in his shirt pocket. When it flashes the number 6, he knows to call Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's deputy mayor and the official in charge of the city food supply. "We're in cahoots," Shinkaretsky says, and winks...
...Leningrad the top five party leaders were all wiped out. Also fallen: about a third of the 129 regional party leaders, Moscow's mayor, Lithuania's top leadership, the KGB boss in Estonia, the admiral of the Pacific fleet and the general of Soviet forces in East Germany, the party boss in Kiev, and Yevgeni Brakov, the manager of Moscow's ZIL limousine factory, who had the thankless task of taking on Yeltsin...