Word: politburo
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...addition to being party general secretary,Gorbachev is president, chairperson of the DefenseCouncil and a Politburo member...
...that have appeared in the U.S. press over the years. Soviet officials may have decided to expose the affair now in an effort to rehabilitate the reputation of KGB Colonel Alexander Dukhanin, whom Pravda credited with breaking the case. Last year Dukhanin was implicated in a corruption investigation of Politburo member Yegor Ligachev and KGB officers...
...territory. Should Gorbachev accede to Lithuania's demand for secession, he knows, he will be pressed for comparable concessions from Estonia and Latvia. And once the secession fever infects the Baltics, the Kremlin fears, what is to stop it from spreading to the other republics? Last week Gorbachev's Politburo ally, Alexander Yakovlev, dubbed this unnerving prospect "the domino effect...
Gorbachev's chief political rival, Politburo member Yegor Ligachev, had a darker name for it: "the beginning of the end." That gloomy prognosis suggests that Gorbachev will meet with staunch resistance in conservative quarters if he bows to Lithuania. Andrei Makarov, a well-placed Moscow lawyer, says that the conservatives are milking the messy political situation and that Gorbachev was actually backed into going to Lithuania when, on a suggestion from opposition leader Boris Yeltsin, the Central Committee voted for Gorbachev to head the delegation. In Washington, however, a top Kremlinologist cautions that any talk of Gorbachev's political demise...
Gorbachev was not explicit about what such a tragedy might be, but one of his closest political allies, fellow Politburo member Alexander N. Yakovlev, was quoted Monday as saying the Lithuanian party's move might cause a "domino effect," encouraging Communists in the country's other 14 republics to break off from Moscow...