More Temblors

The Russian administrative setup experienced further quakes last weekend when the Supreme Soviet announced that the youngest member of the Politburo, Nikolai Voznesensky, 45, had been released as chairman of the State Planning Commission (head of the U.S.S.R.'s industrial production). This had occurred on the same day that Molotov and Mikoyan were released of their ministries. But there was a difference: Molotov and Mikoyan remained as Deputy Prime Ministers; Voznesensky did not.

Voznesensky was a protege of the late Andrei Zhdanov. His removal may be explained by the death of his patron, or by charges made before the Supreme Soviet last week that Russian industry was producing things easy to make rather than the things needed by the people.

Into Voznesensky's job as chief planner went his assistant, Maxim Zakharovich Saburov, who had been hauled up from obscurity two years ago, appointed a Deputy Prime Minister. At the same time Ivan T. Golyakov was relieved of his duties as President of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R.

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