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...came shortly before 9:30 p.m. last Wednesday, when the television lights in the auditorium of the Foreign Ministry suddenly flashed on. For three hours the Moscow press corps had been waiting impatiently for a delegation of party officials, led by Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev and Vice President Anatoli Lukyanov, to bring news of the final hours of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The event had been billed as a make-or-break meeting for the Soviet leader and his unprecedented program of political and economic reforms. The question now was whether Gorbachev...
There was no need to ask. As the Kremlin emissaries filed onto the stage, the answer was written all over their faces. The normally dour Lukyanov let a grin slip. The balding and bespectacled Yakovlev looked like a schoolboy who had just received straight A's. After praising the plenum as a "major step . . . away from an authoritarian-bureaucr atic model of socialism toward a democratic society that has opted for socialism," Yakovlev was asked how the meeting had affected Gorbachev's position. A smile, then the reply: "Very, very positively...
...Others called for a review of the events in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, when soldiers and riot squads attacked demonstrators with shovels and, it is alleged, with poison gas, killing 20. The probing questions continued until the new First Vice President and nonvoting Politburo member, Anatoli Lukyanov, was moved to read out three hitherto secret telegrams sent from the Georgian party leadership, absolving the Kremlin of any direct responsibility...
...Anatoli Lukyanov, 58. A Gorbachev confidant, he scored a double hit, winning a nonvoting seat on the Politburo and a first vice presidency in the government. Promoted...
Alexandra P. Biryukova, the highest-ranking woman in the Soviet hierarchy, gained an alternate, or non-voting, Politburo spot, as did Anatoly I. Lukyanov and Interior Minister Alexander. V. Vlasov, the nation's top policeman...