Shelepin
Americannoun
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That soured Nikita on Shelepin, who then began plotting against his former mentor.
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At 40, Shelepin was appointed by Khrushchev to head the dreaded KGB.
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Thus did Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin, the Kremlin's star ascendant of the 1950s and '60s, plummet last week into the particular oblivion reserved for disgraced Soviet leaders.
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The outcry actually began last February when news leaked out that Shelepin would head a Soviet delegation invited by Britain's Trades Union Congress.
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Scarcely a month before, another Presidium luminary, Aleksandr Shelepin, had breezed into Cairo to reassure Nasser that the new brass would honor Nikita's commitment for $280 million in credit to fuel Egypt's new five-year plan.
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