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...reasons for Brezhnev's popularity among his colleagues was that he guaranteed them lifetime job security. With the exception of a few who personally ran afoul of Brezhnev, most Soviet top officials did not resign; they died in office. Now Andropov will have to start replacing as many as 6,000 top officials in every important governing institution in the country, including the Politburo, the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the Presidium of the Council of Ministers, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
Washington is officially saying little about the trip, during which the 200 American delegates may attend a dinner with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Delegates are fully aware, however, that they must avoid running afoul of the U.S. ban on the sale of certain high-technology products as well as those related to the pipeline. The purpose of the two-day visit, says Council Spokesman William Forrester, will be to "seek ways of expanding permissible trade." That leaves the door open for a vast array of products ranging from spark plugs to fertilizer...
...guards, would lug cardboard boxes and suitcases stuffed with cash to the tellers' windows. That simple method of handling his share of the $12 billion or so in "nar-cobucks" that flood Florida each year used to be the norm-until he and others like him began running afoul of Operation Greenback, the federally coordinated effort to control the drug trade by strangling its cash flow...
When Shostakovich revised the opera in 1956, he toned down the eroticism of both the music and the text (based on Nikolai Leskov's 1865 story). It was essentially the same work that had fallen afoul of Pravda, but noticeably missing were the trombone slides, the most literal music depiction of sexual intercourse since the famous interrupted climax in Act II of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and the lusty horn whoops in the prelude to Der Rosenkavalier...
...liberalized version of its standard, which would allow schools to hew to a religious tradition if their programs and policies "do not constitute invidious discrimination among applicants." Even at that, O.W. Coburn may not win accreditation. Its insistence on maintaining a Christian litmus test for faculty members runs afoul of even the new standard-for infringing upon academic freedom...