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Last week the slow pace of Soviet reform helped provoke the largest and most dramatic Kremlin shake-up since Gorbachev took command three years ago. In a meeting of the 300-member Central Committee called by Gorbachev with lightning speed, a series of retirements, reassignments and promotions swept out most of what remained of the Old Guard and strengthened the Soviet leader's control over the ruling Politburo...
...Saturday. Gorbachev further strengthened his hand by shuffling off Yegor Ligachev, the party's former guardian of ideology and his main rival within the Politburo, to a new commission on agriculture, the quagmire of Soviet bureaucracy. According to Western observers, Gorbachev won Politburo approval of the shake-up while % Ligachev was conveniently out of Moscow on vacation...
...Moscow shake- up and a Beijing slowdown are the price of reform...
...case an embarassing 3-1 loss to Hartwick and a fall out of the national standings didn't rattle the team, Getman decided to shake things...
...Mike [Getman] was changing things around and trying to come up with something," Hartwick Coach Jim Lennox said. "Some times you've just got to shake things...