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...crusading historian Yuri Afanasyev and claiming more than 300 members, held the parliamentary center stage. The group called a meeting on the eve of this Congress session and fewer than 90 members turned up. Setting the pace now is the bloc of about 470 conservative Deputies calling themselves Soyuz, or Union, and dedicated to preventing the breakup of the U.S.S.R...
...move applauded on the right, Gorbachev replaced Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin with Boris Pugo, a senior Communist Party functionary and former chief of the Latvian KGB. Conservatives in the 2,250-member Congress of People's Deputies, banded together in a 500-strong group called Soyuz (Union), have blamed Bakatin for tolerating ethnic violence and demanded his resignation. The right, however, may not be rid of Bakatin for long. Some Kremlin watchers expect him to be named head of the President's new national security council...
Gorbachev no longer has much room for maneuvering. Should he fail to display "the necessary firmness," warns the Soyuz group, it may call for his resignation when the fourth Congress of People's Deputies opens next week. But while adopting a harder line may endear Gorbachev to the right, it will just as likely torpedo his hopes of persuading a majority of the leaders of the country's 15 republics to sign a new union treaty without being coerced...
...multimillion-dollar fee, a corporate sponsor could get permission to use Juno's logo in its packaging and ads, possibly send company employees to the launching site and have its ads plastered on the Soyuz rocket and even the British astronaut's space suit. Says Saatchi spokesman Bill Jones: "If we are successful, this guy will go up looking like a racing driver...
...When the great scorecard for 1988 Soviet achievements is totted up, Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika campaign may receive a modest 8.0 (a bit wobbly on the takeoff) and the return of the Soyuz spacecraft will be lucky to secure a 7.5 (very shaky on the landing). But the Soviet gymnasts, men and women alike, will score a 10 because their performance in Seoul was just that: perfect...