WORLD : New Session of Soviet Congress
The Soviet leadership today called for an extraordinary session of the national Congress to strengthen Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s powers as president.
The official Tass press agency said the presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nation’s highest executive body, “unanimously favored the establishment of democratic presidential power in our country.”
Such a move, coming on the heels of a key Communist Party Central Committee meeting at which party leaders agreed to surrender their monopoly on power, would further strengthen the government while weakening the power of the party apparatus.
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