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...hand within the party, then the Soviets would probably have no immediate need to go in. Brezhnev himself reportedly requested that Olszowski be sent to represent the Polish party in Prague last week, and the two men held long consultations there. Some Western analysts speculated that a new party shake-up might soon substitute Olszowski for Kania, whose name went conspicuously unmentioned at the Prague congress...
Though Moczar, a former Interior Minister, only recently returned to the Politburo in a party shake-up last December, he is a past master of the art of anti-Semitic plotting. In March 1968 he crushed an uprising of Polish students and used the opportunity to advance his own nationalist faction through a purge of Jewish Communists. Could the revival of anti-Semitic rhetoric signal a new bid for power by the wily general? "It's a good bet," noted a West German diplomat. "This could have been a Moczar trial balloon...
Jaruzelski, 57, had replaced the ineffectual Jozef Pinkowski three days earlier at a stormy meeting of the Communist Party's 140-member Central Committee. He thus became the only military man to head a Soviet-bloc government. More important, his accession marked the fourth major leadership shake-up since the eruption of labor unrest last summer and, in the opinion of many fretful Poles and foreigners alike, perhaps the last opportunity for the Warsaw authorities to restore order peacefully...
Employers, in fact, often have legitimate reasons for letting older workers go. A company might conclude that a management shake-up is essential, or a firm with excessive overhead might decide that some high-salaried executives are expendable. Amtrak Lawyer Page Sharp stresses the risks inherent in executive-level positions. "If you want security," he argues, "you choose union jobs. But for bigger jobs and bigger bucks, you've got to be amenable to being wiped out by new management." When presented with such pragmatic arguments, however, juries tend to identify with the employee's predicament rather than...
...recent public appearances, Brezhnev is 73 and suffers from a host of ailments, reportedly including cancer of the jaw and heart disease. The average age of the inner circle of the ruling 15-man Politburo is 69. Most Kremlinologists agreed that the Kosygin move did not presage any major shake-up or policy shift. If anything, it was expected to enhance Brezhnev's own already dominant power. A master of political survival, who was said by Dissident Leader Andrei Sakharov to be "the most intelligent and toughest man in the Politburo," Kosygin periodically differed with Brezhnev both on economic...