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ABC Evening News for Friday, Nov 13, 1987
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Firing of Boris Yeltsin as head of communist party in Moscow, USSR , recalled. Report introduced.

(Moscow, USSR : Walter Rodgers) Denunciations of Yeltsin reported; details given, scenes shown. TASS's publisher of debate in which Yeltsin was fired reported Accusations by Mikhail Gorbachev against Yeltsin and Yeltsin's confession of disloyalty quoted on screen. Intraparty fight said illustrating both limits of political criticism in USSR and Gorbachev's willingness to sacrifice someone who earlier supported his reform programs to keep conservatives at bay.

Reporter(s):
Jennings, Peter;
Rodgers, Walter
Duration:
00:01:40

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