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During the fall, Moscow was awash with rumors that the rightists had talked Gorbachev into a crackdown. German Sovietologist Nerlich, who was in Moscow in November, heard a particularly unnerving -- and unconfirmed -- story. During a Politburo meeting on Nov. 16, an army-KGB-conservative bloc supposedly presented Gorbachev with an ultimatum that Nerlich summarizes this way: "Within six weeks he had to get things under control in the republics, Moscow and Leningrad or there would be physical ways of removing him." Janis Jurkans, foreign minister of the Latvian republic, tells a different story of a November ultimatum. He said last...
When Mikhail Gorbachev decided a year ago that the Communist Party daily Pravda needed a face-lift, he appointed Politburo ally and confidant Ivan Frolov, 61, to perform the surgery. Frolov quickly pledged that the conservative Soviet mouthpiece would strive to reflect the "pluralism of opinions" within the Communist Party. But the promised glasnost failed to materialize. Last month at an open party meeting, Pravda employees angrily demanded their editor in chief's resignation. Frolov, they fumed, was high- handed, rude and a sycophant of the worst order. Staff members charged that he muzzled editorial voices and blocked attempts...
...government's action came a few days after former Interior Minister General Miroslaw Milewski, who was the Politburo member responsible for the state-security police in 1984, was apprehended on charges of corruption. According to authorities, Milewski masterminded a network of Polish agents in Western countries who stole, brought to Poland and then divvied up valuables and jewelry, plus more than 2,000 troy ounces of gold valued...
...generation has lived through revolution, civil war, the transition from capitalism to socialism, the Great Patriotic War, the development and strengthening of socialism. I was lucky enough to be part of the process, from the smallest cell of our party organization right on up to the Politburo, and to have been involved in our country's social and political reconstruction ((he uses the word perestroika...
...decade ago, a government study in China estimated that the nation's water resources might support only 700 million people. That was alarming, since the population had already reached 900 million. Unable to increase the supply, the Politburo took the simpler expedient of revising the study to conclude that there was enough water for 1.1 billion people. As the population continues to grow and now surpasses the 1.1 billion mark, China has gradually increased the numbers in the study...