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...full-scale tactical victory even though he had made some compromises in the process. As expected, Deng, 81, managed to dislodge practically all of his opponents from the party leadership and replace them with younger, bettereducated and more pragmatic people of his own choosing. Six new members of the Politburo, which has now been reduced from 24 to 20 seats, and three new full members of the eleven- person Central Committee Secretariat, which is responsible for handling the party's day-to-day affairs, will give Deng overwhelming support as he pursues his path of reform...
...announcement from the Soviet news agency TASS was deferential in tone. Nikolai Tikhonov, it said late last week, had resigned as Premier of the U.S.S.R. In a letter to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, TASS reported, the 80-year-old Politburo member, who has held the premiership since 1980, declared that his health had "considerably deteriorated lately" and his doctors suggested retirement. Named to replace Tikhonov was Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, a rapidly rising star who was appointed to the ruling Politburo only last April. He is its second-youngest member after Gorbachev...
...Soviet economy, for which the Premier is at least nominally responsible. Last June, Gorbachev publicly excoriated four ministers, who reported to Tikhonov, for slipshod work and failure to rectify bureaucratic shortcomings. Nonetheless, Tikhonov in his resignation letter praised "the warm, comradely atmosphere that has been created in the Politburo lately...
...first deputy chairman of Gosplan, the state planning agency. He was then moved to the Central Committee Secretariat, the powerful body that effectively administers the Soviet Union. Prior to 1981 Ryzhkov had never held a Communist Party job. In April, Gorbachev promoted Ryzhkov to full Politburo status without the normal interval of service as a nonvoting candidate...
...member of both the Central Committee Secretariat and the Politburo, Ryzhkov has been deeply involved in drafting the upcoming 1986-1991 Five-Year Plan. His latest promotion makes it clear that more than anyone else, he will be responsible for supervising Gorbachev's much awaited revival of the Soviet economy...