Word: andropov
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...Chernenko. The new leader has a round face, indicating a stubbornness that is typical of a Russian peasant. In spite of this, people from this background are easier to negotiate with and to handle. They are emotional, honest and, if properly approached, rational. In contrast to Chernenko, Yuri Andropov had the profile of a Western intellectual, and this image initially misled the world. There is no mask on Chernenko...
...Soviet government, which claimed that Andropov had been suffering from a mere "cold," be trusted in arms negotiations when it lies to the world and its own people...
...called experts did not know how bad Andropov's cold was or even that his wife was alive. Yet these same bleeding hearts felt that President Reagan should have gone to Moscow to pay his respects to Andropov...
...Andropov. Chernenko. The names may have changed, but the song remains the same...
...Another East German gesture was a quiet decision to begin dismantling some of the automatic firing devices aimed at preventing escapes along the border. East Germany has turned control of Berlin's entire surface rapid-transit system over to West Berlin. On the eve of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's funeral in Moscow last month, Chancellor Kohl asked East German President Erich Honecker to dinner and reissued a longstanding invitation to him to visit West Germany...