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MOSCOW--Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other top leaders yesterday in a quick-paced Kremlin shake-up that brought Gorbachev closer to assuming a new, more powerful presidency...
Ligachev, a member of the 12-man ruling Politburo who earlier was replaced as party chief for ideology, was widely seen as a potential conservative rival to Gorbachev...
...member policy-making Central Committee also named Vadim A. Medvedev a full Politburo member and gave him responsibility for ideology...
Medvedev told reporters afterward that Mikhail S. Solomentsev, 75, also was retired from the Politburo...
...This critique is unintelligible. The effects of the Reagan Doctrine have been precisely the reverse. It turned out to be an extremely cost- effective form of Western resistance to the Soviet expansion of the '70s. It made the new Soviet outposts expensive liabilities. The Reagan Doctrine demonstrated -- to the Politburo, ultimately -- that it was the Soviet empire that had overreached...