Elderly, corrupt pushed out
NZPA-Reuter Moscow Dozens more officials have been purged from their posts or Communist Party ranks in the Soviet Union as the new Kremlin chief, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, implements a drive to weed out corruption. Regional newspapers showed that the purge of elderly, incompetent or corrupt officials is already surpassing the sweep of changes made in 1983 under late President Yuri Andropov.
Meetings of local party leaders in the central Asian Soviet republic of Kirghizia and in Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea, announced the dismissals of dozens of officials, including many senior members of the local leaderships. In Kirghizia, three members of the local party central committee dealing with administrative affairs, propaganda and culture lost their jobs and one was expelled from the party. Traces of an undisclosed scandal in the local Interior Ministry were revealed as the republic’s Minister of Justice was sacked along with the deputy Interior Minister and head of the police in the city of Osh.
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