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...theory that a new, hard-line group has gained ascendancy in the Kremlin's labyrinthine power politics is intriguing, but far from demonstrable. As the theory goes, Russia's ruling troika-Kosygin, Brezhnev and Pod gorny-were called back from their Black Sea vacations by the party's new upper hand and presented with the decision to invade as a fait accompli. Aleksandr Shelepin, former chief of secret police and a longtime Brezhnev rival, is rumored to have put together the new alliance, which would probably include army leaders and militant young technocrats...
...rule the Soviet Union, Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and President Nikolai Podgorny, flew into Warsaw last week for an emergency conference. Their troika partner, Aleksei Kosygin, cut short a state visit to Sweden to join them there for talks with party leaders from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and East Germany. The Communist summit, the third of its kind in four months, was the Soviet response to the onrush of reform in Czechoslovakia, and its convening was the climax of a week of ominous moves against the Czechoslovaks. It was also proof of an increasingly apparent fact: however tolerant...
Gorshkov's own status reflects the navy's elevation to a place of importance. His fleet ranks in the top troika of Russian weaponry, alongside the ICBM command, a separate service in the Soviet setup, and the air force strategic bombers. In the chain of command, Gorshkov reports directly to the Defense Ministry. He was elected to the Central Committee in 1961, became a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1965 and was promoted last year to the exalted five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union, only the third to get that honor...
Before taking the $40,000 Cleveland post, Briggs demanded the abolition of an outdated troika system, in which three autonomous administrators reported separately to the school board on curriculum, finance and architecture. In a series of conferences with business leaders, he also insisted on assurances of community support, since "I cannot do it alone." Once installed in office, Briggs undertook a massive publicity campaign to bring home to Clevelanders just how bad the schools were. He even walked around town displaying photographic blowups of the stinking, 19th century toilets-open sewage troughs with a waste receptacle at one end-still...
...troika has its own worries, however, and no doubt also took to the rails to coordinate strategy for the conference of Communist chiefs scheduled to convene in Budapest next month. With Rumania and Yugoslavia boycotting the conference, and with a new and perhaps more freewheeling regime in Czechoslovakia, Ulbricht and Gomulka are left as the Kremlin's most trusted friends in its flagging campaign to isolate the renegade Chinese Communists. Any flop in the Budapest meeting, which is designed as a prelude to a larger assemblage in Moscow, would be a serious setback for Russian foreign policy...