Word: secretaryship
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...solution to the country's economic ills, it makes sense for him to shift his authority toward the new presidency. If Gorbachev is going to preside over the diminishment and perhaps the eventual dismantlement of the party, it stands to reason he would want to give up the general secretaryship and move all his books, files and telephones into his other office at Supreme Soviet headquarters. It will be interesting to see if he brings along his portrait of Lenin...
...time goes on, if only because he becomes more radical. The sweeping changes he has instigated this past year in the U.S.S.R., particularly free expression and democratization, and his transfusion of counterrevolution into Eastern Europe would shock not only the late Andrei Gromyko, who nominated Gorbachev for the general secretaryship in 1985, but the Gorbachev of five years ago as well...