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...year-old premier becomes party leader with a revamped Politburo trimmed of aging apparatchiks. Imre Pozsgay, a leading advocate of reform, and Reszo Nyers, the father of Hungary's economic restructuring in the 1960s who was dropped from the Politburo in 1972, were appointed to the ruling body...
...argument over reform. Six months ago, he deposed the foremost proponent of a faster pace, Boris Yeltsin, one of his closest allies. After Yeltsin complained loudly at a meeting of the Central Committee that political changes were moving too sluggishly, Gorbachev had him removed from both the Politburo and his job as head of the Moscow party organization. Significantly, with glasnost under fire from conservatives, Yeltsin last week seemed to be resurfacing. In an interview in the German edition of Moscow News, a glasnost-oriented Soviet weekly, he said he regretted nothing and was still working for the party...
...April 5, Pravda blasted back in a full-page editorial that reverberated throughout the | country. The broadside denounced Sovetskaya Rossiya for printing a "manifesto for anti-perestroika forces" and accused reform opponents of "old thinking." Western diplomats and Soviet sources said the editorial bore the style and rhetoric of Politburo Member Yakovlev, who is credited with being the architect of glasnost. Recognizing that it was outgunned, Sovetskaya Rossiya reprinted the Pravda editorial in full the next...
...Moscow as a deputy director of the propaganda and party organs for the Russian Republic, he spent the Brezhnev years as local party boss in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Brought back to Moscow by then Party Leader Yuri Andropov in 1983, Ligachev was named to Gorbachev's Politburo two years later. All along, Ligachev has insisted he does not oppose perestroika. In an extraordinary interview with the Paris daily Le Monde in December he said, "I know what you write about me. I beg you to understand that there is no difference between ((Gorbachev...
...Wazir by an Israeli hit squad, debate persists over whether his death will deepen unrest in the occupied territories. -- An interview with Jordan' s King Hussein. -- Mounting its most serious military strike in the gulf so far, the U. S. clobbers Iran at sea. -- In Moscow, signs of a Politburo power struggle between Gorbachev...