Senior Shepherd Named Parliament Head in Kirgizia
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MOSCOW — The president of the Soviet Central Asian republic of Kirgizia’s Parliament has been retired and replaced by a shepherd from a collective farm, Tass news agency said Saturday.
Tass said Temirbek K. Koshoyev, 56, had retired on a pension for health reasons. He had served as the republic’s president, the highest state office but a largely ceremonial post, since January, 1981.
Tass named his successor as T. Akhmatov, describing him as a senior shepherd on the “22nd Party Congress” collective farm in the east of the republic, which borders China.
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