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...severely curtailed supplies of food, medicine and gasoline in Armenia. Last week coal miners in the Ukrainian town of Chervonograd held a brief warning strike to demand immediate implementation of government pledges to raise wages and improve conditions. When one Minister called for postponing the expensive concessions, Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov rejected the proposal. "The government must keep its word," he said. Soviet legislators are concerned that if such strikes continue or spread, they could push the shaky Soviet economy to total collapse...
...voting members of the Politburo, Yuri Solovyev and Nikolai Talyzin, also retired. Their places were taken by Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Soviet of the Union legislative chamber, and Boris Pugo, head of the party commission overseeing discipline...
...high. In an article titled "Mysterious Medicine: People with Chernobyl Experience Have No Faith in Doctors' Diagnoses," Moscow News reported that Soviet doctors refuse to attribute any health problem in the region to radiation. Dependent on Moscow for funding, local officials hope some support will come from Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, who has reportedly "listened attentively" to their complaints...
Moscow quickly dispatched a high-level delegation to meet the strikers, led by Politburo Member Nikolai Slyunkov. Mikhail Shchadov, the minister in charge of coal mines, had earlier told the workers that they were not prepared for the independence they were demanding. But after negotiating with local strike leaders into the early hours of the morning, the Moscow delegation finally agreed to sign a protocol promising that the region's mines could decide on their production levels and investments. The state would raise miners' pay for night shifts by $50 a month, a 40% increase, improve food supplies and spend...
Government leaders in democracies are accustomed to having their appointments challenged in the legislative branch, but the experience was a shock for Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. The country's new 542-member Supreme Soviet rejected six of Ryzhkov's 69 nominees to ministerial-level jobs. The - casualties included Culture Minister Vasili Zakharov and Vladimir Gribov, designated head of the central bank...