 Chamkani resumes his former post as first vice-president.Najibullah ousts the remaining supporters of former president Karmal from the Central Committee and the Politburo of the PDPA.At a meeting of the loya jirga (grand national assembly), Najibullah announces that he will present a revised timetable for the withdrawal of Soviet troops, reduced from 16 months to one year, at UN-sponsored talks scheduled for February 1988.