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Marshal of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Ogarkov, reported to have been ousted as the Soviet Chief of Staff in a Kremlin power struggle last month, has been appointed as the Soviet Army’s top combat commander facing N.A.T.O. forces, “Jane’s Defence Weekly” reports. Marshal Ogarkov had been confirmed as the comman-der-in-chief of the Soviets’ western theatre of war, “the ultimate command level in the field.” Yossef Bodansky, an expert on the Soviet Union and consultant to the American State and Defence departments, wrote that Marshal Ogarkov had been nominated to the post on September 7, the dayc after he was reportedly demoted. A Politburo member Georgi Romanov, announced in Helsinki on October 13 that Marshal Ogarkov now commanded “the Soviet Union’s largest western force.” — London.
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