The World - News from Jan. 26, 1987
Soviet newspapers published an attack on the “intolerable slowness” of economic reforms in the Ukraine, intensifying a campaign against the republic’s leader, one of the last prominent politicians from the era of the late Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev. The attack, from a speech given by Politburo member Yegor K. Ligachev, reinforced rumors that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev is determined to oust Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky, 68. Ligachev, second only to Gorbachev in power, said that agricultural performance has deteriorated to the point where the Ukraine, the Soviet Union’s breadbasket, is now an importer of grain.
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