Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banked with carnations, red roses and tulips. Chernenko, acting as the first among equals, led the delegation. Tikhonov came next, followed by a trio of senior Politburo members walking three abreast: Defense Minister Ustinov, in his familiar uniform with rows of ribbons, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Moscow Party Boss Victor Grishin. Behind them came Gorbachev and Romanov, walking side by side as if to dispel rumors of their rivalry for Andropov...
...during the military parade through Red Square in November and was named chairman of Andropov's funeral committee last week. Chernenko worked his way to positions on the Politburo and the Secretariat largely by serving as an aide to Leonid Brezhnev, and he was thought to have been his boss's hand-picked heir. But he lost out, probably when the military and party colleagues decided to back Andropov. Since then, Chernenko has given every appearance of being a team player; he nominated Andropov for the top party post after Brezhnev's death, and for President of the Soviet Union...
Still, Brezhnev's protégé could find a place in a troika of the old guard that might include such other also-rans as Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, 78, or powerful Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin, 69. Grishin remains a favorite compromise candidate. He has an insider's view of the party bureaucracy and saw something of the world when he traveled abroad as leader of the official trade unions movement. A younger member of the old elite, Grishin is not likely to rock the boat and could lead a caretaker government, but he lacks a position on the party Secretariat...
...fair to all his men and women. He was very easy to talk to, but it was clear who was the boss," says Richard C. Cox, head of the detective unit at Area B for the past 18 months and a 16-year veteran of the Boston police force...
DIED. Justin Whitlock Dart, 76, cantankerous California industrialist and longtime member of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet"; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Dart joined Walgreen drugstores as a stock clerk in 1929 after marrying the boss's daughter and eventually became the chain's general manager. In 1941 he moved to the Rexall Drug Co. and turned it into Dart Industries, a conglomerate he merged with Kraft Foods in 1980. Dart recognized Reagan's political potential and worked to advance his career, but refused to accept any high-level post as a reward. Said Dart...