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MOSCOW--President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other members of the ruling Politburo failed to win unanimous support as Communist Party deputies in a new Soviet legislature, Pravda reported Sunday...
Many popular contenders failed to get past the electoral-district gatherings. Vitali Korotich, editor of the popular weekly magazine Ogonyok, walked out of a seven-hour session in Pravda's House of Culture, charging that the delegates had been stacked and that the meeting was being manipulated by the chairman. Two weeks ago, Andrei Sakharov withdrew his candidacy by publishing a short announcement in a Moscow newspaper saying he would run only as a representative of the Academy of Sciences, which turned him down as a candidate last month...
...this week, if all goes according to plan. At precisely 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, Lieut. General Boris Gromov, the commanding officer of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, will walk alone across that steel bridge into Termez, the final Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan. According to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Gromov will then deliver a short, private speech that "would not be written down or listened to." Then he will continue on his way, "without looking back...
...tailspin. Most devastating was the news last week that the 1988 Soviet grain harvest ranked as the worst in three years. Despite desperate efforts to reform agriculture, the harvest came in 16 million tons below the previous year and 40 million tons below 1988 targets. Pravda, meanwhile, reported that the Soviet crime rate climbed nearly 17% in the past year, and attributed the rise partly to corruption spawned by new economic freedoms...
...rest with the success of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign. The call for openness has given rise to a crescendo of grumbling that has become grist for news reports calling attention to the shortage of consumer goods. Public debate has also offered hints of divisiveness at the top. Last week Pravda published a letter, penned by six influential conservative writers, that attacked the weekly magazine Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, for abusing the new openness by distorting history. The letter could not have appeared in the Communist Party daily without support from some top-ranking party members...