Word: politburo
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...sketchy details. Moscow's obstinance condemned people everywhere to fragmentary and often conflicting accounts that tended to shift abruptly as new facts became known. Not until the weekend did a Soviet official come forth with the beginnings of a straightforward account. Boris Yletsin, a candidate-member of the Politburo, said reservoirs near the plant were contaminated and the area remained too radioactive for residents to return. In remarks to the West German television network ARD, Yletsin said of the accident, "The cause lies apparently in the subjective realm, in human error. We are undertaking measures to make sure that this...
...that only two people had died. When some Western papers carried increasingly sensational but unconfirmed accounts of the reactor's condition, TASS reported that the fire was under control. At week's end the official Soviet news agency buttressed earlier claims of the plant's safety by reporting that Politburo Members Nikolai Ryzhkov and Yegor Ligachev had toured the damaged facility...
...still supplying aid to Nicaragua during the year after its revolution, the Sandinistas chose to develop powerful party, military and internal-security organs that mirror those of the Soviet system. The nine-man directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) is fashioned after the twelve-member Soviet Politburo. The comandantes make decisions communally, keep their inner maneuverings secret and issue unchallengeable edicts. The Sandinista People's Army seems a miniature replica of the Soviet armed forces, relying exclusively on East bloc military doctrine, tactical planning and weapons...
...than half the members of the party's Central Committee, which sets party policy. Gorbachev, however, overhauled the powerful Secretariat of the Central Committee, which oversees the day-to-day running of the country. Boris Ponomarev, 81, in charge of relations with nonruling Communist parties, retired from both the Politburo, where he was a nonvoting candidate member, and the Secretariat. Vasili Kuznetsov, 85, the frail First Vice President, gave up his alternate Politburo seat...
...ZAIKOV, 62, the former Leningrad party boss who was already in the Secretariat, became a full member of the Politburo. Zaikov thus becomes one of the most powerful men in the country, along with Gorbachev and Party Ideologist Yegor Ligachev...