Party quietly promotes Brezhnev kin to hierarchy

The Soviet Communist Party quietly promoted Leonid Brezhnev's son and son-in-law to its hierarchy along with two personal aides of the Soviet president, the party newspaper Pravda revealed Wednesday. The No. 2 men in the KGB secret police and Foreign Ministry also were promoted in a move observers said would extend Mr. Brezhnev's control of both the party and the government.

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