Word: viktor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inclusion in the inner circle of power suggests that U.S.-Soviet relations have become Gorbachev's overriding foreign policy concern. The leading candidates to replace Dobrynin as Ambassador to Washington are Yuli Vorontsov, 56, the Kremlin's suave Ambassador to Paris, and two Deputy Foreign Ministers, Viktor Komplektov, 54, and Georgi Kornienko...
...propaganda organs to build public support before he strikes. In December, Vladimir Promyslov, the de facto mayor of Moscow for 22 years, was forced to resign after the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya ran a series of exposes on corruption in the local housing-construction industry. The same articles brought down Viktor Grishin, who was stripped of his job as head of the Moscow city party committee...
Aware that any Soviet leader needs the support of the secret police, Gorbachev arranged last April for KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov, 62, to become a full member of the Politburo. He also endorsed the popular Leningrad party chief, Lev Zaikov, 62, for membership in the Central Committee Secretariat...
...Soviet space program has also had its tragedies. Just three months after the Apollo fire, Colonel Vladimir Komarov plunged more than four miles to earth in Soyuz 1 after its parachute snarled. In June 1971, Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev suffocated during re-entry. Soviet officials later revealed that a valve had opened when the capsule separated from the Salyut 1 space station, allowing the cabin to depressurize...
...Viktor Lukas: music for organ, Romanesque Hall, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard...