Word: semyon
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...DIED. Semyon F. Romanov, 63, colonel general in the Soviet armed forces who was chief of staff of the air defense forces last September when a fighter plane under his overall command shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with a loss of 269 lives, and who defended the Soviet action four days later in Pravda; "in the line of duty," the customary phrase for a military officer; in East Germany, where he had just been assigned as a representative of the Soviet marshal commanding the Warsaw Pact forces, an apparent demotion that fueled speculation about a possible purge...
According to reliable sources, Suslov had ordered KGB General Semyon Tsvigun to halt the investigations in an effort to shield Brezhnev. Thwarted and angry, Tsvigun is said to have killed himself. Following Suslov's death, the KGB resumed its inquiries and the scandals exploded...
...DIED. Semyon Tsvigun, 64, first deputy chairman of the KGB and its highest ranking career officer. In 42 years with the Soviet security and intelligence forces, Tsvigun rose from provincial postings to the capital, where he was promoted to full general in 1978, and full member of the Central Committee in 1981. Tsvigun occasionally wrote for ideological journals, reflecting the official view that all dissents from official dogma were threats to state security and were "intrigues of imperialist intelligence...