The Associated Press
01 January, 1988
Andrei Gromyko (79) is the centre of attention once more as the Politburo votes to remove him as Soviet President, thus clearing the way for Mikhail Gorbachev, who became the new head of state. Officially Gromyko resigned at his own request.
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