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...changes in Eastern Europe. But political reforms were emphatically rejected earlier this month in a closed session of the 8th plenum of Vietnam's Communist Party. While the plenum promised to revitalize the party's frayed relations with the people, it also fired an outspoken liberal member of the Politburo, Tran Xuan Bach. That leaves only one liberal in the 13-member ruling body, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach...
...Down with Gorbachev!" some 10,000 protesters shouted within earshot of the Kremlin. "Down with the KGB!" The demonstrators had gathered to support criminal investigators Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov. The two became popular heroes last year after publicly accusing Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev of corruption; both were elected to parliament last spring. But now they are accused of illegally detaining witnesses and forcing confessions in a six-year probe of a multimillion-ruble scandal involving racketeering and influence peddling in Uzbekistan, which nailed the son-in-law of the late Communist Party boss Leonid Brezhnev, among others...
...have just been named to Mikhail Gorbachev's Presidential Council. What is this new body, and how does it fit in with existing institutions like the Politburo...
...Presidential power and the entire system of presidential rule in our country are in the formative stage. The Politburo will deal with purely political and party matters; its leadership will try to exercise its influence through the activities of its members. I believe this is similar to how the Republican and Democratic parties work in your country...
Where does this leave the party's ruling Politburo? Lost in the dust, it would seem. Last week the congress formally amended Article 6 of the constitution to eliminate any reference to the party's "leading role." Now Communists must share political influence with "other political parties, trade unions, youth organizations and mass movements." But Gorbachev continued to hold on to his own leading role in the party. That may only be a question of months, at least until the party holds its congress in early summer. "As President," he told the parliamentarians, "I want to wish the Communist Party...