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...whispering campaign about alleged alcoholism, retired from the Politburo last July. One day later Andrei Gromyko, who had served as Foreign Minister since 1957, was promoted to the honorific post of President. Last month Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who had commanded the Soviet navy since 1956, was replaced. Nikolai Tikhonov, who had been Premier since 1980 and was closely tied to the Brezhnev era, stepped down in September on a common Soviet pretext: poor health...
...year-old Nikolai Baibakov, who was ousted as the head of Gosplan, the Soviet economic planning committee. He was replaced by Nikolai Talyzin, 56, a former telecommunications engineer who was Moscow's representative to Comecon, the East bloc's common market. Also leaving the top leadership is Nikolai Tikhonov, 80, who retired from the Politburo, having resigned last month from his government job as Premier. In addition, Gorbachev put to rest the gossamer dreams of Nikita Khrushchev, who drafted a long-term economic plan in 1961 predicting the Soviet Union would surpass the U.S. economically by 1970. Gorbachev announced that...
...announcement from the Soviet news agency TASS was deferential in tone. Nikolai Tikhonov, it said late last week, had resigned as Premier of the U.S.S.R. In a letter to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, TASS reported, the 80-year-old Politburo member, who has held the premiership since 1980, declared that his health had "considerably deteriorated lately" and his doctors suggested retirement. Named to replace Tikhonov was Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, a rapidly rising star who was appointed to the ruling Politburo only last April. He is its second-youngest member after Gorbachev...
Less surprising than the content of the message was its timing. As Premier, and thus head of the country's 64-member Council of Ministers, Tikhonov had been expected to deliver the state-of-the-government address at the 27th Communist Party Congress, scheduled for next February. His retirement before that date reinforced the impression of Western observers that Gorbachev is determined to overhaul the Soviet economy, for which the Premier is at least nominally responsible. Last June, Gorbachev publicly excoriated four ministers, who reported to Tikhonov, for slipshod work and failure to rectify bureaucratic shortcomings. Nonetheless, Tikhonov...
...choosing Ryzhkov as Tikhonov's replacement, Gorbachev underlined his high regard for the former engineer who earned a reputation for efficiency as a manager of armaments factories in the Soviet heavy-industrybelt of the ! Urals. Transferred to Moscow's governing bureaucracy in 1975, Ryzhkov served from 1979 to 1982 as first deputy chairman of Gosplan, the state planning agency. He was then moved to the Central Committee Secretariat, the powerful body that effectively administers the Soviet Union. Prior to 1981 Ryzhkov had never held a Communist Party job. In April, Gorbachev promoted Ryzhkov to full Politburo status without the normal...