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Promoted were KGB Gen. Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, who presided over a partial opening up of his secrecy bound agency, and economic planning chief Yuri D. Maslyukov...
Gorbachev continued to fill the ruling body with his own men, elevating the new KGB chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, and the head of economic planning, Yuri Maslyukov, to full membership...
...voting members of the Politburo, Yuri Solovyev and Nikolai Talyzin, also retired. Their places were taken by Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Soviet of the Union legislative chamber, and Boris Pugo, head of the party commission overseeing discipline...
...representative Anatoli Sobchak: "I am not a member of the opposition; I am a supporter of the struggle for a normal economic and political life in our country." But there is a hint of criticism of current as well as past party leaders. President Mikhail Gorbachev, said historian Yuri Afanasyev, an elected official of the group, "is justifiably regarded as the man who launched reform. But the time has passed when he can successfully remain the leader of perestroika and the leader of the nomenklatura," the topmost ranks of the party. "He must make a choice." Gorbachev responded...
...Perestroika is a revolution," Gorbachev insists, and only two weeks ago he warned a meeting of top Communist Party leaders that any official at any level who was not prepared to man the barricades would be purged. He had already proved his seriousness by ousting Leningrad party chief Yuri Solovyov and attacking the party organization there for "chewing the same stale gum" and resisting reform...