Word: vitali
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Most of Andropov's major appointments to date seem designed to consolidate KGB power further. He elevated onetime Azerbaijan KGB Chief Geidar Aliyev, 59, to the key post of Deputy Premier. He sent Vitali Fedorchuk, 64, who replaced Andropov as KGB chief last year, over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which
...widespread crackdown. To the friends and foreign correspondents who flocked to his home after he returned from the prosecutor's office, the historian described police sweeps that are going on throughout the Moscow area and elsewhere in the country under Andropov's new Minister of Internal Affairs, Vitali Fedorchuk, who became notorious for brutal methods when he was KGB chief in the Ukraine. "You can't imagine the scale of these sweeps at stores, restaurants, movie houses and even the public baths," said Medvedev. The purpose of the raids is to root out individuals...
...author of the crackdown, according to some Western analysts, is Vitali Fedorchuk, who replaced Yuri Andropov as head of the secret police last May. Fedorchuk, who won a reputation for harsh treatment of dissidents when he was the KGB's chief in the Ukraine, is believed to be more sensitive than his predecessor to police complaints that there is too much contact between Soviet citizens and the outside world...
...replace Andropov as head of the KGB, the Central Committee chose Vitali Fedorchuk, 63, the first professional secret policeman to serve in that post since 1958. Fedorchuk joined the secret police in the Ukraine in 1939, and served in military counterintelligence during the war. Right after the war he was transferred to occupied Austria and Germany. Following his appointment as head of the Ukrainian KGB in 1970, his branch of the secret police gained a reputation for particularly brutal repression of dissidents and religious groups. Fedorchuk is now expected to be elevated to the Central Committee and possibly even...
...works performed in Chicago were typical of Henze's eclectic style. In Los Caprichos, a gentle, evocative fantasy for orchestra, he draws on a series of etchings by Goya for inspiration. For Il Vitalino Raddoppiato, Henze goes back to the Baroque Chaconne attributed to Tomaso Vitali, composing an extended (26 minutes), virtuosic set of variations for violin and orchestra that preserves the repeating harmonic structure of Vitali's music while steadily growing in complexity. Arien des Orpheus is an elegiac suite from his full-length ballet Orpheus, based on the Greek myth. And in Barcarola, a darkly impressive...