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...Party following Chernenko's death, Gorbachev, 54, was consolidating his power, as one U.S. Kremlinologist put it, "faster than any previous leader in Soviet history." In April the urbane, affable Soviet leader had gained three new places for his supporters on a newly expanded, 13-member Politburo. The latest shake-up was apparently aimed at giving Gorbachev the same kind of free hand, and perhaps a wider range of policy choices, in his dealings abroad. Said Peter Reddaway, a Soviet expert at the London School of Economics and Political Science: "This makes it more conceivable that changes could happen...
Scientists have refined their skills to the point where they now believe that under certain conditions they can predict an earthquake. Last week the U.S. Geological Survey for the first time pronounced an impending shake-up: the tiny ranch community of Parkfield, Calif. (pop. 34), has a more than 90% probability of being rocked within the next nine years by a tremor. Residents of the town, which lies along the San Andreas Fault, seem unconcerned. "We don't have any high-rise buildings," observes Duane Hamann, the hamlet's only schoolteacher. "We just better stay out from under...
...there was a last straw, however, it was probably his determination to order yet another shake-up of the party apparatus at the coming November plenum of the Central Committee. This time it was to involve not only mid- level apparatchiki but higher cadre as well. Thus he encroached upon the holy of holies, the sanctum of the ruling class. Khrushchev's meddling could no longer be tolerated...
...Pakistani nuclear installation before it was capable of producing nuclear weapons. The proposal had been firmly rejected by Mrs. Gandhi, and Indian intelligence officials, as one remarked, "smelled a rat." After Mrs. Gandhi's assassination by two of her own bodyguards six weeks later, intelligence agencies underwent a major shake-up. When routine surveillance aroused suspicions about some officials, intelligence officers met with Rajiv and informed him they had evidence against some employees in his own secretariat. He told them in effect to let the chips fall where they might. In raids on the homes and offices of the suspects...
Hard-pressed farmers now face an additional worry--the prospect of the most sweeping shake-up of Government agricultural policies in half a century. Since the Depression, Washington has poured more than $115 billion into propping up agricultural prices through subsidies and related forms of assistance. Last year alone, federal farm programs cost $7.3 billion, and this year they could run as high as $15 billion. Next month the Reagan Administration will propose to Congress a drastic overhaul of the whole costly system of price and income supports for farmers. The policy shift would slash $7 billion a year from...