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More than 30 members of the Faculty have signed a letter addressed to Soviet First Secretary Yurl Andropov expressing concern at the violation of the human rights of Soviet dissidents...
...MAJOR FORCES in the Politburo are not young men. Andropov is 68, Konstantin Chernenko 71, Andrei Kirilenko 76 and Andrei Gromyko 73. In the not-too-distant future, a younger generation that did not live through the horrors of the war will take over. Despite the constraints of the Soviet system, these leaders might well be interested in improving the lot of their people--if only out of necessity. Growing labor unrest and dissidence within the Soviet Union have till now been successfully held in check, but history suggests the country will not stagnate forever. As Goldman puts...
...home the new leader has never had any such softy image. An apparently modest and retiring man who rarely makes TV appearances, Andropov has been trying to impress the masses not with his charisma but with severe and unwavering efficiency. Last week he contributed an 8,000-word article to the theoretical journal Kommunist in which he unequivocally condemned "socalled rolling stones, shirkers, slackers, who, as a matter of fact, sponge off society." Encouraging thriftiness and responsibility, he firmly denounced those who treat state property recklessly or guard private property jealously. His clear implication: the blame for an economic growth...
...Andropov has persistently worked to shake up the torpor that afflicts Soviet institutions. While what Soviet citizens are calling Operation Trawl tracks down truant workers who show up late at the factory, Andropov is seeking to free his creaking bureaucracy of its habitual corruption. Since assuming office, he has reshuffled some 20 top officials and summarily dismissed six others. He pointedly chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone...
Last week Andropov showed more of his housecleaning intentions by sacking Mikhail Mikhailov, 53, a deputy minister of the aviation industry, and S. Andriasov, his deputy in charge of foreign relations. Neither was accused of any crime, but one of their subordinates, Nikolai Laikov, responsible for organizing aviation exhibitions abroad, was found guilty of misappropriating the equivalent of $80,000 in foreign currency. While Laikov was sentenced to 15 years in prison and his property confiscated, his two bosses were sacrificed for neither stopping nor spotting the swindle. Their example serves as a warning that even faint contact with corruption...