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This collegial leadership is dominated by a troika made up of Premier Kosygin, Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, 60, and President Nikolai Podgorny, 64, the chief of state. A fourth man also regularly joins the decision-making executive committee of the eleven-man Politburo: Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 65, whose position seems to have stayed almost the same through several changes in leadership. Of the top four, none was old enough to have had a major role in the revolution, and all but Suslov were trained as technocrats: Kosygin was a textile engineer and factory manager, Brezhnev a surveyor...
...relatively tougher line. Kosygin is more practical and realistic and, though no liberal in the Western sense (both he and Brezhnev served time in Stalin's ca dres), is more or less looked to by the new intelligentsia as their best hope for further relaxation of party control. Suslov is more of a hardliner, while Podgorny has the strongest liberal tendencies of all. All four distrust the ambitious younger leaders, at whom they recently struck a blow by removing Aleksandr Shelepin, 49, an ex-head of the secret police, from his job as Deputy Premier and Party Secretary...
...Congress as the Soviet Union's No. 1 leader: as party chief, he was elected unanimously to the top post in the new Politburo. As chief of government, Premier Aleksei Kosygin was named to the Politburo's No. 2 post. Into the No. 3 spot moved Mikhail Suslov, 63, the lean Stalinist ideologue, whose position is enhanced by the fact that he holds a key post in the important party Secretariat...
...Communist Party? There sat the 1,200 local delegates, bourgeois and beaming, as their leader talked tolerantly of compromise with the capitalists and collaboration with the Catholics. But for a lonely little bust of Lenin on the podium and the presence of Moscow's cadaverous Ideologue Mikhail Suslov (who brought it), not a single picture, statue or reference to Russia's Communist heroes, past or present, could be seen or heard. Instead, what hook-nosed Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 65, was promoting was something that he styled "the Italian road to socialism...
...caretaker government, Khrushchev's successors have inevitably been scrutinized with gimlet eyes by Western Kremlinologists for who's on top-or likely to be. Nearly all agree that the burly Brezhnev, as party boss, is primus inter pares in a committee government including Kosygin, Podgorny, the ailing Suslov and Mikoyan-in roughly that order...