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Publication of the letter, which was originally sent last July, had tactical significance in the ongoing reunion negotiations. For 17 years the president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, Willebrands may have had an eye cocked at the five-day in-camera meeting this week in Toronto of the heads of all 28 autonomous branches of world Anglicanism. By releasing the document now, Rome also seeks to provoke hard ecumenical thinking in advance of the 1988 Lambeth Conference, the once-a- decade meeting that embraces some 600 Anglican bishops around the world...
...congress re-elected more than half the members of the party's Central Committee, which sets party policy. Gorbachev, however, overhauled the powerful Secretariat of the Central Committee, which oversees the day-to-day running of the country. Boris Ponomarev, 81, in charge of relations with nonruling Communist parties, retired from both the Politburo, where he was a nonvoting candidate member, and the Secretariat. Vasili Kuznetsov, 85, the frail First Vice President, gave up his alternate Politburo seat...
Anatoli Dobrynin, 66, the Soviet Union's longtime Ambassador to Washington, will join the Secretariat, probably as a foreign policy adviser. His 24 years of service in Washington have earned him a reputation as a tough but pragmatic U.S. adversary who could be both charming and deceptive (see box). His inclusion in the inner circle of power suggests that U.S.-Soviet relations have become Gorbachev's overriding foreign policy concern. The leading candidates to replace Dobrynin as Ambassador to Washington are Yuli Vorontsov, 56, the Kremlin's suave Ambassador to Paris, and two Deputy Foreign Ministers, Viktor Komplektov...
...ZAIKOV, 62, the former Leningrad party boss who was already in the Secretariat, became a full member of the Politburo. Zaikov thus becomes one of the most powerful men in the country, along with Gorbachev and Party Ideologist Yegor Ligachev...
Aware that any Soviet leader needs the support of the secret police, Gorbachev arranged last April for KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov, 62, to become a full member of the Politburo. He also endorsed the popular Leningrad party chief, Lev Zaikov, 62, for membership in the Central Committee Secretariat...