Word: shelepin
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...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...
...Shelepin, who has recently wielded enormous power as head of the committee on party and state control, would be the man for the job, according...
Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, said that there was no specific evidence at the present that Shelepin was stepping into Podgerny's job, but that if he were, "he's certainly stepping into power. As for Podgerny, Fainsod said that "it is quite clear that he's being sidetracked. It's clear that there has been bad blood between him and Brezhnev...