The World - News from April 29, 1988
Hard-liner Yegor K. Ligachev, the No. 2 man in the Kremlin, did not attend two key meetings, the newspaper Pravda reported, a possible signal that the chief opponent to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s reforms has been fired as Communist Party ideology chief. Pravda said the meetings--one of historians and the other of journalists and wri1952805491addressed by Alexander N. Yakovlev, a trusted aide to Gorbachev and a staunch supporter of his sweeping reforms. Some sources in Moscow have said Yakovlev replaced Ligachev as head of ideology earlier this month.
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