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Having Yuri Andropov in control of the Soviet Union is comparable to having had J. Edgar Hoover as President of the U.S. and director of both...
...Andropov attacks "shirkers, slackers" and corruption...
...sober man, precise, who shows no emotion, who sticks to the facts and to a mathematical reasoning." Such was the impression of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov that French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson took back to Paris last week after a five-day visit to the Soviet Union. Cheysson, who has never been known to hide behind diplomatic euphemisms, is one of the first Western government ministers to have conferred at length with Andropov since the Communist chief replaced the late Leonid Brezhnev last November...
...visitor conceded that Andropov was "very courteous," but went on to describe him as "a modernist, in the sense of a computer, in the sense of precision of word and gesture." The party chief, said the Frenchman, made "a cold, objective presentation" that was "extraordinarily devoid of the passion and human warmth" he encountered elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Others in the Cheysson party described Andropov as looking considerably older than his pictures, or his age, 68, might suggest. They noted that the Soviet leader was tired when the meetings began and that he seemed to have lost weight...
Everyone who voted for the nuclear freeze in November should take a close look at Yuri Andropov's words: "Let no one expect unilateral disarmament from us. We are not naive people." The goals of the Soviet Union are the same as they have always been. The only thing that has changed is how it is playing the game...