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Gorbachev denies he seeks power amid new Soviet Congress
In Moscow the inaugural session of the Congress of People's Deputies ended with Mikhail Gorbachev denying he is power hungry. Andrei Sakharov assailed the body as failing its task and warned that electing Gorbachev with greater powers gave the party chief absolute personal power. The congress, meeting May 25, elected Gorbachev to a strengthened presidency and named a full-time legislature to replace the rubber-stamp body. Government officials disclosed a 34 billion ruble foreign debt.
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Moscow
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Andrei D. Sakharov
Sakharov
Congress of People’s Deputies
Gorbachev
Communist Party
Kremlin Palace of Congresses
Anatoly I. Lukyanov
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
Nikolai I. Ryzhkov
Congress