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...intriguing feature of the new constitution is Article 118, which allows for creation of a First Vice President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The provision may allow Brezhnev, 70, to take over the presidency without having to assume all the administrative and ceremonial duties carried out by Nikolai Podgorny before his ouster from the Politburo earlier this month (TIME, June 6). The constitution is also the first in Soviet history to assert the primacy of the Communist Party in the political life of the U.S.S.R., although this has long been manifestly the case. This declaration could strengthen Brezhnev...
...being to Soviet citizens. The old constitution also ensured a wide range of freedoms -press, assembly, religion and speech. As it happened, the 1936 constitution was adopted just as Stalin began his Great Purges, which cost 1 million lives, including that of the document's author, Bolshevik Leader Nikolai Bukharin. The new model not only reiterates most of the old guarantees but also promises Soviet citizens the right to have a house, income and savings, livestock and an assortment of "articles of everyday use and personal consumption and convenience." It enlarges freedoms to include the inviolability of correspondence, telephone...
Mission to Moscow. It was partly because of the possibility of a war over Djibouti that Mengistu visited Moscow this month to solidify his new alliance with the Soviet Union. Mengistu and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny signed a declaration laying the "foundations for friendship and cooperation"-diplomatic sugar-coating on Moscow's agreement last December to supply Ethiopia with $100 million in arms. Moscow had good reason to show such benign feelings: Mengistu last month expelled all American military advisers, communications experts and information officials on the ground that the U.S. had helped the late Emperor "suppress the liberation...
...like some slapstick Pat and Mike show transplanted to distant Africa. Everywhere that Nikolai Podgorny went, Fidel Castro was sure to have been. Well, almost. After inviting himself to Zambia, the Cuban leader left the band, the honor guard, the artillery poised for its 19-gun salute, waiting at the airport. Sorry, Castro decided after taking off from Tanzania, I'm going to Mozambique instead. "He asked to come," said a bewildered Zambian official. "We said yes, and that's the last we ever heard...
...familiar bearded figure in army fatigues suddenly popped up in Africa last week. Fidel Castro toured several countries, made anti-"imperialistic" speeches and discussed present and future Cuban military and technical aid. This week he was due to be followed by Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, who will go to Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique in a general effort to increase Soviet influence in southern Africa. Both could take some satisfaction from the fact that an African military force, aided by the Marxist regime in Angola and almost certainly by Cuban troops there, was striking with astonishing success at an essentially...