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...contends that his Communist Initiative movement alone counts at least 3.5 million sympathizers. Other alternatives are emerging on the fringes of the party. With the tacit approval of Gorbachev, former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze set up a Democratic Reform Movement earlier this month to further perestroika. Last week Alexander Yakovlev, a key architect of Gorbachev's changes, quit the government, presumably to devote his energies to the fledgling movement. Meanwhile, 12 prominent hard-liners called for the creation of a "popular patriotic movement" of their own for "the salvation of the motherland...
...under way. Last week some of the country's most prominent advocates of change put together a Democratic Reform Movement, intended to become a unified and permanent opposition to the Communist Party, or at least its hard-line faction. Organizers include former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze; Alexander Yakovlev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev who is sometimes called the "architect of perestroika"; and Mayors Gavril Popov of Moscow and Anatoli Sobchak of Leningrad...
...Congress seems irritatingly irrelevant at a time when store shelves are empty and the nation's coal miners have given notice that they intend to stage a political strike this week. For them, reform has not come fast enough, and they only want more. As Politburo liberal Yakovlev told the assembly, the changes in Soviet society were already "irreversible" and would proceed "with the party or without it." The question that Gorbachev has to decide is whether he dares risk his political future to stay behind "with the party...
ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV...
...member of both the Politburo and the new Presidential Council, Yakovlev, 66, provides a bridge as power is shifted from one to the other. In 1983 he was named head of the influential Institute of World Economics and International Relations (IMEMO). From 1970-73 he was acting chief of the party propaganda department, where he won favor with liberal intellectuals. In 1985 Gorbachev put him back in charge of that department. He has been the President's closest adviser for years, responsible for much of the philosophic theory underpinning glasnost and perestroika. Gorbachev, claims Yakovlev, is not power hungry...