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MOSCOW--President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other members of the ruling Politburo failed to win unanimous support as Communist Party deputies in a new Soviet legislature, Pravda reported Sunday...
Yegor K. Ligachev, reputedly a conservative force on the Politburo, got the most "no" votes of any Politburo member, 78, according to Pravda...
President John F. Kennedy's Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy were among the Americans present. The Soviets were represented by the likes of former Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and onetime Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. The Cubans were led by Politburo member Jorge Risquet. The atmosphere, said a participant, was one of "remarkable bonhomie." However, the meeting revealed that all three parties acted out of basic misperceptions during the crisis. Among them...
Conflicts within the leadership of Najibullah's P.D.P.A. are so pronounced that since last fall the Soviets have retired, jailed or shipped to Moscow three members of the Afghan Politburo and several from the Central Committee. The regime claims to have 500,000 men under arms, but the figure appears to be grossly inflated. Though the Afghan army includes some well-trained and experienced units, like the 37th Commando Brigade, it is made up mostly of conscripts, many of whom are less than eager to fight for the regime. Apparently aware that a number of units are unreliable, the President...
...beginning of school nears, the Harvard faculty brainstorms new courses that won't be too taxing on students or the teaching fellows assigned to devise the curricula: "Class Struggles in the Saturday Morning Cartoon", nicknamed "Pee Wee's Politburo;" "Your Friend the Immune System," otherwise known as "Cells are Swell" and "The Concept of Adonis in Southern California Beach Volleyball"--nicknamed "California Coolers...