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After several months of relative inactivity following the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the Moscow rumor mill last week was once again grinding away. The first major items of interest concerned the state of health and whereabouts of Communist Party Leader Yuri Andropov, 68. Then, as if tales of an Andropov illness were not intriguing enough, the official Soviet news agency TASS set off a new round of speculation with a terse two-line communique announcing the promotion of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, to the post of First Deputy Premier...
Georgi Arbatov, director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies and a man believed to be close to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, followed Ogarkov's lead with an authoritative commentary published the same day in Pravda. He offered an equally chilling assessment of how Moscow would respond to the deployment of new American missiles in Europe. To preserve nuclear "equality," Arbatov said, the Soviets "would have not only to add to our missiles in Western Europe but also to deploy them near American borders." The meaning of the final phrase was left deliberately vague, but Western arms analysts...
...Marx. Speaking under an enormous portrait of the man, Chinese Party Secretary Hu Yaobang praised Marx as "the most outstanding revolutionary and scientist in human history," then devoted the rest of his 90-minute address to promoting Peking's pragmatic approach to reform. Soviet Party Chief Yuri Andropov contributed an anniversary article to the journal Kommunist last month, lauding Marx as "a great practical revolutionary." His own views on the need for workers to be thrifty and responsible had a curiously capitalist ring. Maverick Rumania marked the occasion by announcing a new wage system pegging salaries to the number...
...facsimile of the letter will appear in an advertisement in The Crimson on March 15, the sixth anniversary of Shcharansky's imprisonment on charges of spying for the CIA. Copies will be mailed both to Andropov and to Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Dobrynin...
Stern said the group would also have people in the dining halls asking students to sign post cards to Andropov and Secretary of State George Schultz. "We're trying to raise people's consciousness, so they don't let this day slip by them," Stern said...