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...June. And next September, the Communist Party's Central Committee will probably be enlarged to bring in about a hundred younger members. Taking the cue, Party Secretary Hu, 69, has hinted at his choice for his own successor: Hu Qili, 55, now a high-ranking member of the party secretariat...
...family of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was executed. Andropov fired several industrial ministers and began to appoint younger, more professional executives to senior posts. Andropov also set up a task force charged with streamlining the bureaucracy. It is thought to be headed by Central Committee Secretariat Member Nikolai Ryzhkov, a close associate of Gorbachev...
...moment the two Soviet officials arrived at their offices at the United Nations Secretariat building in New York City, they knew something was very, very wrong. The inner office was closed off. The lock on the door had been changed, and a printed notice said that the office had been sealed by U.N. security forces. The date was Friday, April...
...most important aspect of Gorbachev's status is that he is simultaneously a member of the Politburo and of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, which runs the country on a day-to-day basis. Only Chernenko and Leadership Hopeful Romanov share that distinction. It is a vitally important one: because of the leadership vacuum created by Chernenko's failing health, the Secretariat now appears to have greater control of the entire Soviet system. ; As "Senior Secretary" in the organization, Gorbachev has been able to increase his sway throughout the bureaucracy and fill the key positions of the institution with...
...smelled a rat." After Mrs. Gandhi's assassination by two of her own bodyguards six weeks later, intelligence agencies underwent a major shake-up. When routine surveillance aroused suspicions about some officials, intelligence officers met with Rajiv and informed him they had evidence against some employees in his own secretariat. He told them in effect to let the chips fall where they might. In raids on the homes and offices of the suspects on Jan. 18, agents turned up what one report described as "trunkloads" of copied documents...