RUSSIAN RUMOURS
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(N.Z PA.-Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW, April 7. The Soviet Union Foreign Ministry has confirmed officially that four leading members of the Politburo are ill, The Ministry's press department, answering inquiries from foreign journalists, said that the Prime Minister (Mr Alexei Kosygin) was in hospital, that President Podgorny had a cold, and that the party’s principal -ideologist, Mr Mikhail Suslov, and its trade union leader, Mr Alexander Shelepin, both had unspecified illnesses. Observers in Moscow say that the official confirmation appeared to be deliberately aimed at dampening speculation that something abnormal was going on among the Soviet Union leadership. However, there is still no news of the whereabouts of Mr Dmitry Polyanski a Politburo member and First Deputy Prime Minister, who has not attended any public functions for a week.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32266, 8 April 1970, Page 15
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