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News from Up There. The Kremlin shake-up left Russia's two top leaders untouched. If anything, Party Boss Brezhnev was strengthened by Podgorny's isolation, while Premier Aleksei Kosygin benefited by Shelepin's removal from the government side of the Kremlin power structure. Significantly, the budget that was passed by acclamation before the personnel changes were announced once again put stress on consumer goods and light industrial development-two aims in which Brezhnev and Kosygin concur. With much snarling about warlike U.S. imperialism, they also raised the Soviet defense budget by 5%. But the hike...
...energy needs. It also has Brit ain's worst managerial headache. Its deficit has mounted to $125 million so far this year, and it intends to close 150 coal mines and seek government forgiveness of loans equaling more than $1 billion. Last week, in the most severe shake-up since the coal industry was nationalized 18 years ago, the N.C.B. abolished seven division offices, announced plans to eliminate 14,000 clerical employees and save $40 million annually...
...shake-up put new life into the whole system, inspired parental excitement over the schools. When Newcomer proposed an astonishing $21 million school bond issue in 1963, the P.T.A. put 5,000 people to work stuffing information envelopes and plugging the cause. It passed 7.5 to 1. Only 15 months later he proposed a $38 million issue-and it passed better than 4 to 1. Since his arrival, two high schools, three junior highs, 20 elementary schools and 20 additions have been built...
...Dodgers or the Twins. He was relieved--glad, it seemed, to talk about something besides politics. "The Twins, of course," he replied. "Why, they're all from Washington. They were there when I was there." He leaned forward, as if to let me in on the latest Kremlin shake-up, and confided almost in a stage whisper, "I'd be for the Dodgers against anyone else. I'll tell you one thing: Sandy Koufax is the greatest pitcher." After that, he lost me; he babbled on, and I just nodded my head. I finally dragged him off baseball...
...week's end there was a shake-up in the Imperial Guard. All conscripts have been relieved of duty that would bring them close to the royal presence. From now on, the safety of the Shah will be entrusted to 30 hard-core Guardsmen whose loyalty has been tested by years of service...