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- <text id=89TT0961>
- <title>
- Apr. 10, 1989: Winners, Losers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 10, 1989 The New USSR
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE UNION, Page 52
- WINNERS
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- <body>
- <p> Insurgents had a field day. Victor Podziruk, a lieutenant
- colonel, beat a general. Roy Medvedev, the dissident historian,
- led in his district and is favored in a runoff. Alla
- Yaroshinskaya, a nonparty journalist in the Ukraine whose
- stories enrage local officials, beat four party members.
- Nationalism triumphed in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, where
- popular-front candidates won a majority of seats.
- </p>
- <p>LOSERS
- </p>
- <p> In Leningrad the top five party leaders were all wiped out.
- Also fallen: about a third of the 129 regional party leaders,
- Moscow's mayor, Lithuania's top leadership, the KGB boss in
- Estonia, the admiral of the Pacific fleet and the general of
- Soviet forces in East Germany, the party boss in Kiev, and
- Yevgeni Brakov, the manager of Moscow's ZIL limousine factory,
- who had the thankless task of taking on Yeltsin.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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