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...start all over again now." The rest of the speech was read by an announcer. Writes Medvedev: "An error of this kind was unprecedented, and was inexcusable for an aide, who would certainly expect immediate dismissal." Although all of Brezhnev's aides lost their positions after his death, Alexandrov-Agentov was kept on as an assistant to Andropov...
...capabilities of the Salyut-Cosmos-Soyuz complex are currently being tested by the cosmonaut team of Vladimir Lyakhov and Alexander Alexandrov, who joined Salyut on June 28. (A previous docking attempt by three other cosmonauts in April was aborted, because of a faulty guidance system.) As usual, the Soviets have been vague in defining the nature of experiments conducted by the pair, other than to admit that it includes orbital photography...
...unlikely to agree. One goal of their space program is to build an orbital platform for military and scientific ventures. Lacking a reusable space shuttle like Challenger to ferry men and material, the Soviets have been forced to send their crews up for longer and longer periods. Declares Anatoli Alexandrov, president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences: "The strategy of a gradual increase in man's stay in space has justified itself completely. It means that even longer space expeditions are quite feasible...
...hours after Brezhnev's death two weeks ago. It grew more pronounced as Vice President George Bush and Shultz arrived in Moscow for the funeral, under specific instructions from President Reagan to emphasize U.S. willingness to ease tensions. Andropov, accompanied by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, an adviser on East-West relations, met with them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman for 30 min. in the brightly lit Green Room of the Kremlin. They discussed nuclear-arms control, Afghanistan and human rights, three of the prickliest issues between the two countries...
...announcer describing the scene to a nationwide audience: "The most important goal of the last decade of his life was detente. Of course, he was deeply disappointed by the sharp change of policy of the U.S." After speeches by Andropov, Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, Academy of Sciences President Anatoli Alexandrov and a factory worker, pallbearers led by Andropov on the left and by Premier Nikolai Tikhonov on the right carried the coffin to another bier behind the mausoleum. There the family bade its last farewell to Brezhnev. His widow Victoria was overcome by emotion as she kissed her husband...