Word: victor
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...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's concern for economic discipline, was given greater leeway in controlling party personnel appointments, making him one of the most powerful officials in the Secretariat...
...hint of deja vu in the wintry air of Geneva last week as U.S. negotiators at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) filed into the headquarters of their Soviet opposite numbers, across the Avenue de la Paix from the Palais des Nations. Inside the Villa Rose, Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov greeted the Americans with a brief statement. "Changes in the global strategy situation" said Karpov, had made it necessary for his country to "review all the problems under discussion" at the negotiations. The Soviet Union, he concluded, was "unable to set a date" for a resumption...
...gang rape in an Anderson, S.C., motel room by three men, after which the 80-lb. woman victim required four pints of blood and five days of hospitalization. The rapists had pleaded guilty in the hope that as first offenders, they would receive a lenient sentence from Judge C. Victor Pyle. "The defendants," intoned Pyle, "shall be confined to the custody of the South Carolina department of corrections for a period of 30 years." That was the maximum. The real jolt came when the judge added that he would suspend the sentence "upon the defendants' voluntary agreement...
...tough attendance policy has caused many members to be expelled from the council, requiring a special election in each case. "It does tend to wear on the vice-chair," said Victor G. Freeman '84, adding. "For this reason I think we ought to approve...
...There is no statistical significance in a 1.2 percent difference," said Victor Solo, assistant professor of statistics "Out of a sample of 662, the difference of seven individuals is of no real, practical consequence...