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...notable as Chernenko's rise was the political eclipse of Kiril Mazurov, 64, a Politburo member and First Deputy Premier since 1965. He was ousted from both jobs last week "for reasons of health and at his own request." Mazurov's backer was Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 74, who is not in the best of health, and whose influence has long been on the decline...
...stopped these missions after taking office because they had irritated Cuba's Fidel Castro. From the SR-71 's photos, experts will be able to determine whether Cuba's Floggers can carry a nuclear payload. Meanwhile, a group of U.S. Senators visiting Moscow asked Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin about the MiG-23s, noting that their presence in Cuba might hurt the chances of the Senate's ratifying a strategic arms limitation treaty. Kosygin snapped at his visitors that he "didn't need a lecture" on the U.S. political system and that the planes were only...
...centered wife. Consumed by ennui, she finds her estate-owning hus band Arkadi (Robert Symonds) a total bore. She whiles away the lazy hours with a sophisticated neighbor, Rakitin (Paul Hecht), whose one-man-talk show masks the desire he feels for her. A coltishly appealing young man named Aleksei (Mark Lamos) is brought in to tutor Natalya's son. One look at him and Natalya half falls, half dives into the vortex of love...
...well camouflaged until she discovers that a similar chemical reaction has set in between her 17-year-old ward Vera (Amanda Michael Plummer) and the tutor. As Natalya schemes against Vera like a soap opera villainess, every sort of womanly hell breaks loose. In the end, Vera, Rakitin and Aleksei depart, leaving Natalya sad der but, one suspects, not a whit wiser...
According to the Soviet news agency Tass, the plane entered Soviet airspace northeast of Murmansk and was intercepted by Soviet fighters from the area's anti-aircraft defense system. For two hours, said Tass, the airliner ignored their orders to land. Premier Aleksei Kosygin was quoted as saying that the Korean jet took "evasive action" instead, in a vain attempt to get away. Finally, reported Tass, the plane came down and landed on a frozen lake near the town of Kem in the Karelian republic. Two passengers were killed and 13 injured, Kosygin told the U.S. embassy in Moscow...