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...uncharacteristically visible phase last month with the death of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, whose influence in the Kremlin had been second only to Brezhnev's. Says an experienced diplomat in Moscow: "While Suslov was alive, he kept the lid on pretty strongly." Alexei Shibaev, 67, a protégé of both Suslov and Brezhnev, lost his job as head of the Central Council of Trade Unions last week. According to rumors, as many as 4,000 Suslov-backed officials may have been fired since his death. Chernenko has moved aggressively to fill the void. Significantly, he stood immediately...
During his more than 60 years in the service of the Communist Party, Suslov remained an aloof, backstage figure. Born into a poor peasant family in 1902, he became a fervent Bolshevik at 16. He rose with extraordinary rapidity in the Communist Party hierarchy, soon becoming a protégé of Stalin's. The dictator gave Suslov major roles in a series of bloody purges costing 20 million lives that began in 1931 and ended only with Stalin's death in 1953. A member of the ruling elite since 1947, Suslov kept his top-level posts under...
...clay beyond its ordinary limits. Clay sculpture began to verge on the technically stupendous, as with Voulkos' ex-student John Mason, 54, whose dark walls and slabs of mottled stoneware are triumphs of craft. So, in a quite different way, is the work of another Voulkos protégé. Sculptor Kenneth Price, 46. But where Mason's work is rocklike and lumpen totemic. Price's involves an elegant denial of clay's earthen nature. His sharp-angled, cubistic "cup" sculptures look so machined and precise that they might have been conceived in metal; the brilliant...
...would be raising taxes, perhaps by proposing new excises on cigarettes and liquor, or by accompanying the deregulation of natural gas with a windfall profits levy that could produce $20 billion a year. New York Congressman Jack Kemp, a firm believer in the tax reductions, charges that his lapsed protégé, Stockman, deliberately concocted the frightening deficit forecasts and made them public in order to necessitate such action. Another route would be for Reagan to seek a palatable way to curtail the inflation-based increases in entitlement programs, although he will find it all but politically impossible...
...ousting an Allen protégé, Haig has demonstrated that his sometimes shaky status in the Administration is on the rise again. His choice for Neumann's replacement: Ambassador to the Philippines Richard Murphy, 51, a career diplomat with pro-Arab sympathies similar to those of Neumann. Murphy, TIME has learned, was Haig's original choice for the Saudi Arabia post...