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Not long after, agreement between Gorbachev and Jakes was reached on the plan for a Politburo purge. But October came and went with nothing done. In mid-November, hard-line ideology chief Jan Fojtik traveled on short notice to Moscow, where he met with Georgi Smirnov, chief of the Moscow...
"It's ongoing--as we renovate, we remove asbestos. Eventually we will purge the university," said Brogna.
The actual result, in the absence of U.S. intervention, was not surprising--a debilitating purge of the Panamanian military (at least 1/10th of whom are said to have been involved in the uprising) and the promulgation of harsh contingency measures. These "emergency war laws" broaden the already expansive jurisdiction of...
The switch is the most complete undertaken by a Communist Party in Eastern Europe. Not even in Poland, where a Solidarity-led coalition has been governing for nearly two months, have Communists subjected themselves to so radical a purge of their political philosophy. In Hungary it marks the end of...
Gorbachev used the close of the Central Committee plenum to purge one- quarter of the twelve voting members of the Politburo. He ousted three aging conservatives: Ukrainian party chief Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 71; former KGB chairman Viktor Chebrikov, 66; and agriculture specialist Viktor Nikonov, 60. Gorbachev's main nemesis, Yegor Ligachev...