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MOSCOW (AP) — The legis
lature and the Communist Party’s
policy-making body will shake up
the Kremlin hierarchy in extraordi
nary meetings this week, a high-level
source said Thursday.
The policy-setting Central Com
mittee meets Friday and the Su
preme Soviet on Saturday. The
meetings brought officials rushing
back to Moscow and sparked specu
lation that Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev and his opponents would
face off over his ambitious economic
and social reforms.
viet, the nation’s parliament, usually
convenes twice a year after meetings
of the 300-member Central Commit
tee. It last met May 24-26.
Soviet media reported Sunday
that a regular session of the Su
preme Soviet would begin Oct. 27,
and the announcement Thursday of
a special sitting at such short notice
was highly unusual.
The Central Committee had been
expected to meet by the end of Octo
ber, but one Soviet source said plans
for implementing Gorbachev’s polit
ical reforms were proceeding “faster
than was expected.”
The source, a member of the Cen
tral Committee staff, said the com
mittee will approve changes in the
party and the structure of govern
ment outlined at a party conference
in June.
The reforms are intended to en
hance the status of the party as the
leading force in Soviet society.
The source called it “logical” that
personnel changes would follow any
change in the organizations’ format.
Delta flight tapes
eave no clear clue
o explain crash
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ra-
1K "• jio exchanges between Delta Flight
141 and air traffic controllers pro-
ide no apparent clues into what
aused the Boeing 727 to crash last
nonth seconds after it departed Dal-
as-Fort Worth International air-
wrt, according to a tape of the com-
aunications released Thursday.
The tape, released by the Federal
Ration Administration, shows the
ilots of the Delta jet did not com-
nurbcate with the tower during the
lane’s takeoff run down the runway
lor during the few seconds it re-
ained aloft.
Immediately after the plane
odtal resumed to have crashed, one of
alis'it lie pilots began to contact the tower,
ralveia utmanaged to give only the plane’s
omeiaBentification numberi
The two pilots and flight engineer
iiicoB iere among those who survived the
rcenli? vug. 31 crash, although all three
iere injured. Fourteen of the 108
eople aboard were killed
Investigators have said the jetliner
eemed to encounter nothing un-
ersiont sual as it sped down the runway,
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the crew may have failed to set the
plane’s flaps properly.
Howevef, nothing in the pilots’
exchanges with the control tower in
dicates whether they did or did not
have proper settings for the flaps,
which help provide lift on takeoff.
According to the tape and tran
script provided by the FAA, the
Delta jet took about 22 minutes to
taxi from its gate to when it was
given the go-ahead by the tower to
depart for Salt Lake City, Utah.
The plane was cleared for takeoff
shortly after 8:59 a.m. CDT, and the
co-pilot acknowleged the clearance.
“Fire at the end of the runway,”
an unknown voice was heard to say
on the tape less than a minute later
in the first indication that something
unusual had occurred, according to
the tape.
Four seconds before the remark
and presumably after the Boeing
727 already had crashed, someone
aboard the plane attempted to com
municate with the tower, but only
managed to identify his flight num
ber.
He spoke on condition of anonym-
ity-
At its last meeting July 29, the
Central Committee adopted a
timetable for overhauling the Soviet
political system, which also was dis
cussed at the party conference.
That blueprint calls for a new,
full-time legislature and a more
powerful president, a post Gorba
chev could take on.
The first deadline set was Octo
ber, by which time the Central Com
mittee said a draft law on amend
ments to the Soviet Constitution and
on multicandidate elections of legis
lators was to be complete. In a Sept.
23 speech, Gorbachev said the par
ty’s 13-member Politburo would
convene soon to review the draft
law.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Va
dim P. Perfiliev told a government
news briefing Thursday that the
Central Committee plenum “will
mark another step in realizing the
decisions” of the last party confer
ence. The Central Committee source
put the focus on changes in the par
ty’s structure.
Soviet sources also reported spec
ulation among high-placed officials
about possible changes on the Polit
buro itself, indicating uncertainty
even at high levels about the agenda.
The Central Committee is em
powered to make personnel changes
in the Politburo, the party’s ruling
body.
The last full Politburo member re
moved was Geidar A. Aliev on Oct.
21, 1987. Aliev was a protege of for
mer President Leonid I. Brezhnev,
who now is harshly criticized for per
mitting corruption and stagnation.
The conference of 5,000 Commu
nist Party officials held in Moscow
three months ago approved plans to
limit terms of Communist Party offi
cials and a review of the party’s 20
million members.
At that session, one delegate crit
icized by name President Andrei A.
Gromyko, 79, and fellow Politburo
member Mikhail S. Solomentsev, 75,
linking them to the abuses of the
Brezhnev era.
Some observers speculate that
Gorbachev’s backers want to remove
60 to 70 Central Committee mem
bers.
Gorbachev repeatedly has crit
icized the party apparatus for being
too involved in daily government op
erations and argues that the party
should focus on broad policies and
theories.
Personnel changes could give
Gorbachev and his backers a chance
to move out conservative party bu
reaucrats they see blocking the So
viet leader’s reforms.
In a speech Wednesday, Gorba
chev again pressed the case for
sweeping reforms.
Bush, Dukakis praise shuttle flight
continue to fight for White House
Press .1 1 . • ’ 1 a : ’ 1 1, ”
George Bush and Michael Dukakis chorused praise
for America’s triumphant return to space on Thursday,
an $ hen swapped charges over the environment as they re-
umed daily combat in a hard fought race for the White
House.
Dukakis stood with actor and environmentalist Rob-
rt Redford at his side as he attacked Bush as a man
diom polluters should love. “Calling George Bush an
nvironmentalist is like calling Dan Quayle a states-
an,” the Democrat said in a two-sided attack against
th members of the Republican ticket.
Bush got off a double-edged attack of his own when
e scoffed at Dukakis’ claims of being tough on crime,
flf you believe that, he’s got some bottled water from
ostoo Harbor he’d like to sell you,” the vice president
aid in a crack about Boston’s own pollution problems,
predff® Quayle was in Washington getting ready for next
uofffWednesday’s nationally televised debate with Demo-
padt vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen.
Bentsen campaigned in Tennessee, where he had
lioped to watch the launch of the space shuttle with a
Jroup of schoolchildren. The Texas senator left before
he delayed blast-off, but said later, “It was a spectac
ular takeoff. OK, Russians, we’re back.”
Bush had concluded his speech to a campaign crowd
li St. Charles, Mo., when he learned from aides the
shuttle had been launched. He returned to the plat-
and ? Homi to tell cheering supporters, “We’re going to keep
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the edge in space. We’re back. America’s back.”
The vice president’s aides spread the word that he in
tended to travel to California and welcome the shuttle
astronauts back to earth when their journey ends on
Monday.
Dukakis offered similarly upbeat sentiments in New
Jersey, opening his speech on the environment by say
ing it was a “very successful morning. As all of you
know, the space launch was successful. We’re very
proud of the astronauts.”
So much for the nice talk.
Dukakis collected endorsements from several envi
ronmental groups and had sure-fire crowd pleaser
Redford at his side as he criticized the environmental
record compiled by the Reagan administration and
pledged to step up the pace of toxic waste cleanup.
He said that in Bush’s role as chairman of a task force
concerned with government regulation, the vice presi
dent had blocked proposals to reduce lead in the air
and to clean up toxic wastes. He said that in eight years,
the administration has begun cleanup efforts at only
137 of 1,200 toxic waste sites identified as national prio
rities.
“For the foot-draggers and chronic polluters, I have
just one message. You better vote for Mr. Bush, because
if I’m elected the game is over — no more sweetheart
deals and delayed cleanups and half-baked compro
mises that we’ve seen over the past seven and a half
years.”
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