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- <text id=89TT1782>
- <title>
- July 10, 1989: World Notes:Soviet Union
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 10, 1989 You Bet Your Life:Pete Rose
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- SOVIET UNION
- That Rejected Feeling
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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