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...monolithic unity," as Pravda put it. It empowered Brezhnev to "cleanse" the party by expelling members, a device that would enable him to favor his backers. All present Politburo members retained their seats, but their order of seniority was changed, except for Brezhnev and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, who remained No. 4. Dmitry Poliansky (TIME cover, March 29) rose from ninth to eighth position behind Kirill Mazurov, who advanced one step to No. 7. Gennady Voronov, Premier of the Russian Republic, dropped from fifth to tenth place. Aleksandr Shelepin, former head of the KGB secret police, slipped from the seventh...
...Byelorussia, he received a technical education and, during World War II, fought with guerrillas behind German lines. In the postwar period, he began a rapid rise through provincial Byelorussia's bureaucracy that led to his election to the Politburo. In March 1970, he reportedly joined fellow Politburo Members Mikhail Suslov and Aleksandr Shelepin in criticizing Brezhnev for his handling of the economy. As a result, Brezhnev would probably be happy to see him removed from the Politburo. But Mazurov seems likely to retain his position, largely because he has too much support within the party hierarchy for Brezhnev to remove...
...different issues. Even so, Brezhnev's main supporters appear to be Andrei Kirilenko, 64, who acts as his deputy, Ukrainian Party Boss Pyotr Shelest, 62, an ultra-hard-liner, and possibly Gennady Voronov, 60, Premier of the Russian Federation. Arvid Pelshe, 72, the Latvian party leader, and Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 68, are both ailing and might possibly be replaced at the present Congress. Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, 68, will probably stay on. So too will Kosygin, 67, whose support comes mainly from the government bureaucracy and managerial class...
Died. Major General Artem I. Mikoyan, 65, co-designer of the Russian MIG fighter planes and brother of long-time Politburo Member Anastas I. Mikoyan; in Moscow. MIGs take their name from the surnames of Mikoyan and Mikhail I. Gurevich, who in 1940 built the MIG-3, which became the backbone of the Soviet high-altitude fighter force. Their MIG-15 became the Communist mainstay in the Korean War, while the supersonic MIG-21 is presently the first-line fighter for most Communist and many Arab air forces. Over the years, Western airmen have given the MIGs generally high marks...
...accept his Nobel Prize, Rostropovich ridiculed the Kremlin's wildly fluctuating attitudes toward the award. He noted that when it was given to Boris Pasternak in 1958, and to Solzhenitsyn this year, it was regarded as "a dirty political game." But when Stalinist Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov was honored in 1965, it was seen as "a just recognition of the world significance of our literature." About Solzhenitsyn's banned novels, Rostropovich said: "He has suffered for the right to write the truth as he sees...