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White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu has accepted an invitation to go to Moscow to help Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev organize his office, a spokesman said Thursday. Sununu already has been offering advice, meeting this week with a delegation of visiting Soviet officials who are interested in how the White House works. President Bush's spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Sununu was invited by a member of the group to visit Moscow and has accepted.

Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin, moving swiftly Thursday to bring Soviet rule to an end, issued decrees abolishing the Soviet Foreign and Interior ministries and taking over the Kremlin and most other central government agencies on Russian territory. So sweeping were Yeltsin's decrees--dramatic moves to consolidate his power--that apparently only two Soviet ministries, Defense and Nuclear Energy, still remain independent of his Russian Federation government.

Yevgeny I. Ignatenko laughed when asked who is now in charge of the Soviet Atomic Energy Ministry. "If we understood that ourselves, it would be easier to answer that question," the ministry spokesman replied. "I suppose we're all our own bosses. Anarchy is the mother of order, they say." Anarchy, in a slow, creeping form, has plagued the tottering remains of the Soviet central government since the August coup attempt.

Yevgeny I. Ignatenko laughed when asked who is now in charge of the Soviet Atomic Energy Ministry. "If we understood that ourselves, it would be easier to answer that question," the ministry spokesman replied. "I suppose we're all our own bosses. Anarchy is the mother of order, they say." Anarchy, in a slow, creeping form, has plagued the tottering remains of the Soviet central government since the August coup attempt.

After a five-month search, Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov on Thursday put forward a candidate for one of the tougher posts in the Soviet government--minister of culture. Nikolai Gubenko, one of the Soviet Union's leading actors and the director of Moscow's Taganka Theater, said he agreed to accept the job only if he could sharply curtail his ministry's authority to control the arts.

The KGB, the Soviet Union's secret police, is enjoying greater support from Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev than any other Soviet institution, according to U.S. and foreign analysts of Soviet affairs. In turn, they say, he seems particularly dependent on the agency and may be in the process of increasing its power.

President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Sunday that it would be "immoral" for him to quit his post and announced that he and leaders of most of the Soviet republics have designed a new political structure for the vast country and will introduce it during the upcoming meeting of the national Parliament. "I will not resign now. It would be immoral . . .

The Soviet government's top policy-making council Tuesday approved a package of economic reforms that will double food prices in coming months as part of the country's shift to a market economy based on supply and demand.

Under the Kremlin's new policy of glasnost (openness), a Muscovite should be able to pick up the phone and call a government agency, but he now has no easy way of getting the number, a newspaper said Sunday. Moscow Pravda complained that the official policy of more openness in selected areas does not extend to the Moscow phone directory, a 720-page hard-cover tome issued last summer that sells for four rubles (about $6). Under the entry for "Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.

The KGB, the sword and shield of Communist rule and the most dreaded force in Soviet society, was ordered dismantled Friday and its spying and information-gathering duties entrusted to new, separate agencies. The landmark decision by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and the other members of the ruling Soviet State Council was openly aimed at breaking the KGB's stranglehold on state security functions, which made it an indispensable but ultimately dangerous adjunct of power.

President Mikhail S. Gorbachev said Sunday that it would be "immoral" for him to quit his post and announced that he and leaders of most of the Soviet republics have designed a new political structure for the vast country and will introduce it during the upcoming meeting of the national Parliament. "I will not resign now. It would be immoral . . .

Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Wednesday crippled a vital leg of the Kremlin power troika that tried to overthrow him, disbanding the KGB's ruling body and ordering an investigation into its role in last week's failed coup. The embattled yet ever-defiant Gorbachev has already wrenched the Communist Party's grip from the reins of power by resigning as party leader, severing the political organization from the presidency.

Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev nominated a Communist Party apparatchik as his vice president Wednesday, arousing fears among radical lawmakers that his proposed second in command would prove an opponent of bolder economic reforms. Gennady I. Yanayev, former chairman of the Soviet Council of Trade Unions and now in charge of foreign affairs in the party Politburo, declared proudly to the national Parliament, "I am a Communist to the depths of my heart."

Moscow's two Pizza Hut shops were doing a brisk business when, suddenly, the smiles froze. The successful enterprises were forced to shut down for 18 hours while local officials argued over whether the U.S. franchise should report to the Moscow city council or some other government body. Welcome, American business, to the land of perestroika. It has never been easy to do business in the Soviet Union.

In the former annex of a Moscow vegetable store, a U.S. Jewish group and Soviet Jews on Monday launched a unique enterprise--a bureau officially sanctioned by Soviet authorities to help people who want to leave the country for new lives in Israel and elsewhere. "Today is a joyous day for us," Leonid D. Stonov, a Soviet Jewish leader and founder of the new Bureau on Exit, Human Rights and the Rule of Law, told supporters who crowded by the dozens into a small room to celebrate the opening.

The KGB, the sword and shield of Communist rule and the most dreaded force in Soviet society, was ordered dismantled Friday and its spying and information-gathering duties entrusted to new, separate agencies. The landmark decision by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and the other members of the ruling Soviet State Council was openly aimed at breaking the KGB's stranglehold on state security functions, which made it an indispensable but ultimately dangerous adjunct of power.

Vladimir Kryuchkov, the head of the KGB, said Thursday that the Soviet security and intelligence apparatus is "interested in" and "absolutely" supportive of a commission of the new Congress of People's Deputies that would oversee his secret police agency. And he said that under Mikhail S. Gorbachev's program of perestroika , "a great deal of noble aspects of KGB activities" will become more apparent, such as "our struggle against terrorism." In that effort, he added, the KGB had had "certain contacts" with the United States.

Julia Garmash wants to be a journalist, but she knows that it takes more than wishes and hopes. And to get an idea of how the press operates--and perhaps some experience herself--she's working part time in a foreign news bureau in Moscow. What could be more natural for a university-bound 17-year-old? In most places, nothing. But Garmash is a Soviet teenager, and Soviet youth typically have not worked their way through school in the past.

White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu has accepted an invitation to go to Moscow to help Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev organize his office, a spokesman said Thursday. Sununu already has been offering advice, meeting this week with a delegation of visiting Soviet officials who are interested in how the White House works. President Bush's spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Sununu was invited by a member of the group to visit Moscow and has accepted.