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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesSOVIET UNIONThat Rejected Feeling
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- Government leaders in democracies are accustomed to having
- their appointments challenged in the legislative branch, but
- the experience was a shock for Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai
- Ryzhkov. The country's new 542-member Supreme Soviet rejected
- six of Ryzhkov's 69 nominees to ministerial-level jobs. The
- casualties included Culture Minister Vasili Zakharov and
- Vladimir Gribov, designated head of the central bank.
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- Most of the nominees were rejected on the grounds that they
- lacked qualifications. Last week Ryzhkov, who had vowed to
- fight for his nominees, thought better of it. "I could not see
- any substantial proof that would enable me to defend them," he
- admitted. "They simply did not meet demands in one area or
- another."
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