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...topic is discussed constantly in Moscow these days, for clearly understandable reasons. The Soviet party leader and President, 73, who is believed to be suffering from emphysema, has been absent from public view for about a month. Soviet television last showed an apparently frail Chernenko on Dec. 27, handing out awards at a Kremlin ceremony. Three days earlier he had missed the funeral of Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, held in Red Square on a bitterly cold...
With the second team All-Ivy guard noticeably absent, the Crimson had little trouble in a 60-50 upset win two weeks...
...sense, our Dover Beach is Dover now--a place built for easy embarkations, absent of beauty or a connection with nature, and ruled by clocks and timetables. There is nothing terribly wrong with Dover, and nothing especially right. The town is a point of convenience, which is exactly the point that the Industrial Revolution originally spied, strode toward and reached. Who in Dover today would describe the world as various and beautiful and new? Yet how is the world less so than it was 134 years ago or a thousand, or the way it will be a thousand years hence...
President Konstantin Chernenko, 73, was conspicuously absent from the funeral ceremonies; his doctors had apparently advised him to stay out of the cold. Later in the week he made an appearance at a Kremlin awards ceremony. In his absence Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, and Romanov, the most likely candidates from the younger generation to succeed to Chernenko's party- leadership job, were prominent at the ceremonies. Even without the ministerial title, Romanov may prove to be a decisive figure in allocating military expenditures and could emerge as stiff competition to Gorbachev, now believed to be the front runner...
Just as hopes were beginning to appear that President Reagan might approach his next four years in office with the spirit of moderation so noticeably absent from his first term, out comes the Administration's preliminary budget proposals. Wednesday's announcement of budget targets for the upcoming fiscal year was just another episode in a long series "of hatchet" jobs on social programs that have come to characterize the Reagan tenure in office. Offered in the guise of fiscal sobriety, the President's plans will serve mainly to exacerbate further many of the social inequalities governments are normally charged...