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Gorbachev reorganizes Communist Politburo
MOSCOW — Mikhail S. Gorbachev pulled
off a major shake-up of the ruling Communist
Party on Wednesday, dropping three Politburo
members in a dramatic consolidation of power.
Tass news agency announced that former
KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, 66, and
Viktor P. Nikonov, 60, were retired from the
pinnacle of Soviet power, and 71-year-old
Ukrainian party chief Vladimir V. Shcher
bitsky said he, too, was retiring.
The personnel moves continued Gor
bachev’s molding of the top party apparatus,
carried out in a series of bold strokes. Gor
bachev is general secretary of the Communist
Party as well as Soviet president
The shake-up came after the party Central
Committee on Wednesday approved a pro
gram directing restive Soviet republics to stifle
calls to leave the union but acceding to de
mands for more local control of the economy.
The Central Committee also gave Gor
bachev an early chance to reach deep down in
the party for new faces by moving up the next
party congress to October 1990.
Gorbachev forced the retirement of a quar
ter of the Central Committee at the last meeting
of that policy-making body in April. Almost a
year ago, two long-time apparatchiks, includ
ing then-President Andrei A. Gromyko, were
removed from the Politburo.
Shcherbitsky, regarded as a conservative
force both in Moscow and his native Ukraine,
was the last Politburo member serving from the
time of President Leonid I. Brezhnev. His
retirement leaves Vitaly I. Vorotnikov of the
Russian republic the only pre-Gorbachev ap
pointee on the 11 -man Politburo.
Shcherbitsky long has been rumored to be in
trouble with Gorbachev. He presumably will
remain party chief in the Ukraine until a meet
ing there can oe called to name a replacement.
Gorbachev continued to fill the ruling body
with his own men, elevating the new KGB
chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, and the head of
economic planning, Yuri Maslyukov, to fu||
membership.
Tass said Gorbachev thanked the three Pol.
itburo members warmly for their “many years
of fruitful activity” in the party, indicating
they were retiring in good grace. 8
Two non-voting members of the Politburo
Yuri Solovyev and Nikolai Taly/.in, also re
tired. Their places were taken by Yevgeny
Primakov, head of the Soviet of the Union
legislative chamber, and Boris Pugo, head of
the party commission overseeing discipline.
Plane blown apart by bomb
PARIS — A Moslem extremist
group claimed responsibility
Wednesday for the downing of a
French DC-10 jetliner in southern
Niger that killed all 171 people on
board.
U.S., French and UTA airline
authorities said they believe the
plane, bound Tuesday from Chad
to Paris, was blown out of the sky
by a bomb. A U.S. team of investi
gators was to leave later Wednes
' day for Niger.
Two callers who claimed to
represent Islamic Jihad but did not
give their names made their claims
of responsibility in separate tele
phone calls to the airline and to a
Western news agency.
UTA Flight 772 was on a flight
from Brazzaville, Congo, to Paris
when it crashed Tuesday shortly
after making a stop in N Djamena,
Chad. Debris was scattered over a
16-mile expanse of desert about
400 miles northwest of
N’Djamena.
Hugo heads toward Eastern Seaboard
MIAMI - Hurricane Hugo quick
ened its pace toward the Eastern
Seaboard on Wednesday as residents
gathered supplies and made evacu
ation plans, while violence and loot
ing broke out on the shattered islands
in the storm’s wak&
President George Bush authorized
the sending of troops to the U.S. Vir
gin Island of St. Croix after National
Guardsmen and police reportedly
joined prison escapees and others in
wild looting. Armed Coast Guard
crewmen also went ashore to help
restore order.
Attorney General Dick Thorn
burgh ordered 100 U.S. marshals and
FBI agents to the island, and Coast
Guard cutters evacuated frightened
tourists and residents. Bush also au
thorized troops to help hurricane
damaged Puerto Rico.
Forecasters issued a hurricane
watch from St. Augustine, Fla., to
Cape Hatteras, N.C., urging coastal
residents to begin taking precautions.
Hugo picked up speed over open
water and could come ashore late
today or early Friday.
“I think they’re looking at this one
with a bit of respect,” city spokes
man Pat Dowling said in Myrtle
Beach, S.C., as radio and TV adviso
ries warned: ‘‘Remember the people
of Puerto Rico.”
Since Sunday, Hugo has killed ai
least 25 people, left thousands home
less and caused hundreds of millions
of dollars in damage as it slashed
through the northeastern Caribbean
with wind of 125 to 150 mph. -
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De Klerk commits to end oppression
PRETORIA, South Africa — F.W.
de Klerk was sworn in as president
Wednesday and promised a new
constitution that would bring blacks
into South Africa’s government by
the end of his five-year term.
He appealed to South Africans of
all races to help build a nation “free
of domination and oppression.”
“We accept that time is of the
essence and we are committed to
visible, evolutionary progress,” de
Klerk said in his inaugural speech.
He has vowed to eliminate dis
crimination and allow blacks, who
currently cannot vote, participation
in government under a five-year plan.
But he did not specify any apart
heid laws he would repeal. Nor did he
say how he would implement his goal
of providing limited political rights
to the 28-million black majority
while maintaining the political domi
nation of the country’s 5 million
whites.
Dc Klerk, 53, took the oath of
office as reports spread that his gov
ernment will free jailed black nation
alist leader Nelson Mandela earl)
next year. Newspapers quoted ofti
cial sources as saying the release wil
be part of a package of reforms it
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