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Ever since Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov started his campaign against "shoddy work, inactivity and irresponsibility" after coming to power last November, the Soviet press has published countless such examples of what he had in mind. Last week the Kremlin stepped up the offensive by announcing measures aimed at combatting the twin evils of absenteeism and alcoholism...
...ground-launched cruise missiles scheduled for deployment in five West European countries will be moved into place in Britain and Italy. Although the missile question has provoked the most heated opposition in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl vigorously reaffirmed, in recent meetings with President Reagan and Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, that his government was committed to the NATO decision no matter how many people demonstrated this fall...
...theory is that Andropov may have indicated to Kohl in Moscow last month that he might be willing to reconsider the Nitze-Kvitsinsky scheme. Officials in Bonn deny that this was the case. They note that when West German officials asked Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov about the plan, he curtly replied: "We do not want to talk about walks in the woods. We want to talk about talks at the table." Still, the Soviet strategy from the beginning has been to appear to West Europeans to be more flexible than the U.S. Soviet Foreign Affairs Specialist Genrikh Trofimenko added...
...central axiom is that if one burrows deep enough beneath the Mao jacket, the shapka or the chador, one discovers that people everywhere are essentially the same. American Anthropologist Samantha Smith was invited to Moscow by Yuri Andropov for firsthand confirmation of just that proposition (a rare Soviet concession to the principle of on-site inspection). After a well-photographed sojourn during which she took in a children's festival at a Young Pioneer camp (but was spared the paramilitary training), she got the message: "They're just . . . almost . . . just like us," she announced at her last Moscow...
...standards. Nor does the policy break new ground when compared with Premier Alexei Kosygin's largely unsuccessful effort to decentralize Soviet industry in the 1960s. It might take years before the changes could be applied outside the factories that were singled out last week. Said a Western diplomat: "Andropov is gently approaching the tricky question of how to decentralize a state-run economy...