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MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev pulled off a major shake-up of the Communist Party Politburo yesterday, retiring a quarter of the ruling elite in one stroke and promoting his KGB chief and his top economic planner...
Dropped from power was the Ukrainian party chief, Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky, 71; former KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, 66; and Viktor P. Nikonov, 60. Only one pre-Gorbachev appointee is left on the 11 member Politburo...
Gorbachev forced the retirement of a quarter of the Central Committee at the last meeting of that policy making body in April. Almost a year ago, two long-time apparatchiks, including then-President Andrei A. Gromyko, were removed from the Politburo...
Scherbitsky, regarded as a conservative force both in Moscow and his native Ukraine, was the last Politburo member serving from the time of President Leonid I. Brezhnev. His retirement leaves Vitaly I. Vorotnikov of the Russian republic as the only pre-Gorbachev appointee on the 11 man Politburo...
Tass said Gorbachev thanked the three Politburo members warmly for their "many years of fruitful activity" in the party, indicating they were retiring in good grace...