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...People's Deputies last March, reported the pitfalls facing perestroika to President Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle, Secretary of State James Baker and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, as well as thousands of ordinary Americans. And he had plenty of prescriptions for improvement: clean the deadwood from the Politburo; subordinate the party to the People's Congress; open up foreign investment...
...sight on Aug. 14. Officially, he is recuperating from a gallbladder operation, but the whispers have grown louder that he has cancer. Even if Honecker's political life is over, his successor | is not expected to deviate from the status quo course Honecker has set. The consensus among the Politburo's 26 members (average age: 68) is that a refusal to change guarantees stability...
Honecker's most likely successors, veteran Politburo members Egon Krenz, 52, and Gunter Mittag, 62, who have been filling in for him at public ceremonies, are at least as conservative. The rise of either of them to the top job would mean no change from the present course. "They are signaling that the old line is the right line for the future," says Fred Oldenburg, senior analyst at the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne...
...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...
Chebrikov had moved from KGB chief last September to a new party position overseeing legal affairs. Nikonov had described himself this year as a deputy to Yegor K. Ligachev on party agricultural policy, and appeared to serve no clear function on the Politburo...