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...students were hardly back in their dormitories before Politburo Member Mikhail Solomentsev was dispatched to Alma-Ata to dress down party officials and order changes. "We are all apologizing," a young government official ruefully commented when asked how things had been going since the riots. "We are cleaning things...
...president of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. The head of the republic's Communist youth organization has also been ousted. In addition, teachers are being reprimanded for not keeping students under control. But if the Kremlin was quick to punish, it was also quick to placate. The Politburo's Solomentsev paid highly publicized visits to stores, markets and housing complexes to hear citizens' complaints about food shortages and poor housing. "Before Dec. 18 there was nothing in the shops," said a Kazakh. "There were shortages of meat, milk, cheese, everything. But in three days, suddenly, the shops were full...
Since Andropov succeeded Brezhnev more than a year ago, he has moved slowly in putting his stamp on the ruling elite, but last week the long-anticipated changes finally began to take shape. Mikhail Solomentsev, 70, a former premier of the Russian Republic, was given a voting position on the Politburo commensurate with his new job on the Party Control Commission. The plenum confirmed the importance of the KGB in inner Kremlin councils by elevating the KGB chief, General Victor Chebrikov, 60, to candidate membership in the Politburo. Yegor Ligachev, 63, a technocrat from Siberia who shares Andropov...