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General Giap, 72, one of the most successful military tacticians of the past 40 years, orchestrated the victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, Tet in 1968 and the conquest of the South. But he was replaced as Defense Minister in 1980 and dropped from the Politburo in 1982, possibly because he was too outspokenly pro-Soviet. That was heresy to Hanoi's xenophobic leaders, despite their alliance with Moscow. Giap remains on the party's Central Committee, however, and last May met with reporters at the 30th anniversary of Dien Bien...
...U.S.S.R. may have its own generation of computer kids. The Kremlin has decreed that in September computer classes will begin "on a large scale" for the 8 million ninth- and tenth-grade students in the Soviet Union's 60,000 high schools. Said a statement issued by the Politburo: "All- round and profound mastering by young people of computers must become an important factor in speeding up the scientific and technological progress in the country." While computers are widespread in American high schools, most Soviet students have no chance to learn about the machines until college...
...detected the bugging of some of their embassy's typewriters. The most damaging discovery was that at least some of the compromised typewriters were situated in the embassy's political section, the group responsible for providing policymakers in Washington with assessments of the private workings of the ruling Politburo, the Central Committee and other top-level Soviet commands...
Gorbachev's as a member of the Politburo, would almost certainly have had a general say in the firings and he may have been directly involved in some of them since they involved officials in areas such as consumer oriented industry, where he was increasingly becoming involved...
...bureaucracy. According to a senior British diplomat, the largest turnover of local Communist officials in recent memory took place during biennial party committee elections between November 1983 and January 1984. Nonetheless, the pace of change remains slow, and most top officials in the Soviet bureaucracy are, like most Politburo members, in their...