Word: shelepin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alexander N. Shelepin, 47, one of the bright young men of the Soviet Communist Party, apparently replaced Nikolai V. Podgerny, 62, as number two man in the Party yesterday...
...move puts Shelepin in the role of heir apparent to Leonid I. Brezhnev, who holds the nation's most powerful position as Communist Party First Secretary...
According to Associated Press dispatches, Shelepin, former head of the secret police, has for some time been regarded as the probably future top man in the Soviet Union...
...speculates that Shelepin's appointment, which will allow him to concentrate his energies on party affairs, means that party discipline will be tightened up and that stricter party supervision will be applied to the drive for economic reform within the USSR...
...Greek Cypriots, but more recently they seemed to sympathize with the Turks, their historic enemies, in the Cyprus dispute, and Podgorny was all smiles and promises. "You ask, and we give you everything," he said, "investments, financing and Cyprus support." Scarcely a month before, another Presidium luminary, Aleksandr Shelepin, had breezed into Cairo to reassure Nasser that the new brass would honor Nikita's commitment for $280 million in credit to fuel Egypt's new five-year plan. Moscow in recent weeks has been sidling up to Pakistan too, using as bait support against India over Kashmir...