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...first of my Red Square state funerals, but I missed it," he says. "I chose instead to be one of 30 journalists permitted to go into the Kremlin's pearl white, czarist-era Hall of St. George to watch the world's leaders express condolences to Brezhnev's successor, Andropov." Amfitheatrof had armed himself with a strong pair of Soviet-made binoculars to monitor Andropov's expression as he greeted such disparate visitors as George Bush and Fidel Castro. "The binoculars were large and conspicuous," recalls Amfitheatrof, "and as I watched the face of Andropov...
...styles of Soviet youth, Soviet military strength and scores of other stories. But no subject has preoccupied him more deeply than the waning lives and deaths of the Soviet Union's superannuated rulers. Since November 1982, Amfitheatrof has attended the obsequies for three top Soviet leaders, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, as well as those for the powerful Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov...
Some people graduate from Hollywood to superpower negotiations. Samantha Smith, 12, is doing it the other way around. Ever since Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov replied to her letter about world peace with an invitation to Moscow in 1983, the schoolgirl from Manchester, Me., has basked in international celebrity, chatting on TV talk shows and lecture podiums from New York to Tokyo, and writing a book about her peace initiative (Journey to the Soviet Union). Now Miss Smith is going to Hollywood. Starting later this month she will be filming the pilot of a new TV series called 55 Lime Street...
...office site favored by Gorbachev is symbolic of how authority has flowed away from the center of the regime during Chernenko's waning leadership, which in turn came after the truncated rule of Andropov and the final, enfeebled years of Leonid Brezhnev. Other branches of the Soviet system have also benefited, especially Andrei Gromyko's Foreign Ministry. Gromyko's increased standing in the Politburo under Chernenko has been widely noted, as has his unquestioned command of Soviet foreign policy. For that reason, Gromyko is regarded by some foreign diplomats as a possible candidate for Chernenko's job. Another factor...
...process. Says a Kremlinologist at the U.S. State Department: "There are no votes taken. They palaver until the consensus is reached." In the final hours of the decision, the military and the KGB may become more influential, as they < were in helping to swing the balance in favor of Andropov. There is no guarantee, however, that next time they will have anything like the same significance...