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When World War II began, Brezhnev was placed in charge of converting factories in the Ukraine from civilian to military production. His superior was Nikita Khrushchev, then party boss of the area. Brezhnev became part of a fast-rising cadre of officials who came to be known in the West as the "Ukrainian Mafia." Later in the war he served as a political officer in charge of propaganda and morale with various Red Army forces. Official Soviet biographies credit him with numerous feats of wartime heroism, even though he apparently played a largely noncombatant role...
...last week, Vladimir Kuzichkin, the former KGB major who defected to Britain last June, stressed the difference between Andropov and other top Soviet leaders. Said Kuzichkin: "With the progress of time it will become clear that Andropov is his own man. Although he made his name as the KGB boss, he was not a professional policeman, having much wider interests. He owed his KGB job to Brezhnev, but he was never Brezhnev's creature...
Yuri Andropov becomes the first KGB boss to run the country...
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, is said to be a witty conversationalist, a bibliophile, a connoisseur of modern art?a kind of "closet liberal." He also happens to be the former boss of the world's most powerful, and possibly most feared, police organization...
...York Times reported 180 former employees of Richard M. Nixon joined the former President to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his land slide reelection victory. "Welcome Class of '72," a banner read. "The guest, the Times wrote, "did not talk about Watergate." Instead, Rose Marx Woods saluted her old boss as "the most honorable man this country ever produced." "After a standing ovation, the group joined hands and sang 'God Bless America. Nixon then strode to a piano and played 'Let me Call You Sweetheart.'" He ended his remarks by quoting Theodore Roosevelt. "The credit," Nixon began, "belongs...