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...WELCOME, COMRADE, read the headline in the London Daily Mail. Just in case the visitor failed to get the message, the paper repeated it in Russian: Mbl BAC HE XOTHM, TOBAPHIU.The comrade was Politburo Member Alexander Shelepin, whose 48-hour visit to Britain last week mortified the Labor government, embarrassed the trade unions, and stirred unexpectedly deep reserves of anti-Communist feeling among the British public...
...outcry actually began last February when news leaked out that Shelepin would head a Soviet delegation invited by Britain's Trades Union Congress. The Kremlin could scarcely have chosen a less suitable delegate. Shelepin is not only head of the impotent trade union organization in the Soviet Union-where strikes are illegal and workers are notoriously without genuine representation-but is also a former chief of the KGB, the dreaded Soviet secret police, which he ran from 1958 to 1961. Declared Frank Chapple, head of Britain's electrical and plumbing union: "The only experience Shelepin has of workers...
Milk Cartons. Despite the protests, T.U.C. General Secretary Len Murray refused to rescind the invitation. To keep potential demonstrators off balance, the T.U.C. would not disclose when Shelepin's Aeroflot jet would arrive or where he would go. Worried that the Soviet labor leader might be attacked or even assassinated, security agents later dispatched a stand-in resembling the short, heavy-set Russian in a decoy Daimler limousine. He took the brunt of a barrage of umbrellas, milk cartons, bricks and Passover cookies, as the real Shelepin slipped into T.U.C. headquarters through the tradesmen's entrance...
...Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev slipped into the slot of party chief. Since that time, he has succeeded in outmaneuvering and outdistancing his principal opponents in the Politburo-notably, Alexander Shelepin and Nikolai Podgorny. He has also managed to take over many of Premier Kosygin's functions...
...deals with the start of World War I-a critic writing in Moscow's Literary Gazette asserted that Solzhenitsyn had desired a Nazi victory in World War II. More important, at week's end the big trade union newspaper Trud, which often reflects the views of Alexander Shelepin, former chief of the KGB (secret police), charged that Solzhenitsyn despised his homeland and sympathized with German militarism...