Word: brezhnevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What can you tell us about Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's written response to your latest proposals on strategic arms negotiations. Overall, was it encouraging...
...Andropov becomes a favorite to succeed Brezhnev...
...Arriving in small groups, nearly 300 members of the Communist Party's ruling body filed into the auditorium for a closed-door conclave. Ostensibly, the main object of the special meeting was to discuss a plan to increase agricultural production. But shortly after the start, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, 75, in his role as General Secretary of the Communist Party, made an announcement that added a new element to the most popular pastime in Moscow: speculating about who will eventually succeed the ailing leader...
Looking pale but fit, Brezhnev nominated Yuri Andropov, 67, the tall and somewhat stooped leader of the Committee for State Security (KGB), for election to the ten-man Secretariat of the Central Committee, a powerful body that runs the day-to-day affairs of the party. The Central Committee promptly elected him. Two days later, the government announced that Andropov had been relieved of his position in the KGB "because of his assignment to other duties." The promotion made Andropov one of only four contenders who hold the combination of posts thought necessary for a potential party chief: membership...
...shows that "he has a lot of support in the army, the Foreign Ministry and the party." According to Hyland, the Central Committee may have given Andropov some of the vast policymaking powers that were long held by Mikhail Suslov, the party ideologist whose authority was second only to Brezhnev's until Suslov's death last January. A Soviet historian agrees: "Andropov is definitely...