Word: brezhnevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other West Europeans hope that Andropov's ascendancy will break the pattern of worsening East-West relations. Says Enrico Jacchia, director of Rome's Center of Strategic Studies: "Our colleagues in the Soviet Union who were in close contact with Andropov before Brezhnev's death have often spoken of him as a focal point for more flexible East-West relations." Jacchia, like many Europeans, fears that Washington may pass up an opportunity to exploit openings. "Clearly, there is something new beginning to move in Moscow. Will Reagan and his people react positively to this...
...easier to interpret will be the choice of a new President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a.government post that Brezhnev held concurrently with that of Party General Secretary for the last five years of his life. Although the presidency is largely a ceremonial position, it does confer an aura of importance on the man who fills it. Speculation in Moscow last week centered on Chernenko or Tikhonov for the presidency if Andropov does not aspire to it himself. Andropov's behind-the-scenes maneuvering should keep him fully occupied as he moves to consolidate his power. Meanwhile...
...hopes to step out from Brezhnev's shadow, Yuri Andropov will have to re-make the Communist Party in his own image. A key for the new General Secretary will be to place his own people at the top of the tentacular bureaucracy that carries out the will of the Kremlin leadership. Long excluded from the corridors of power during the Brezhnev era, a generation of party officials in their 40s and 50s will be carefully watching whom Andropov is able to put in important posts in the coming weeks and months. These choices will affect not only Andropov...
...year, the ruling body of the Communist Party had 14 voting members, an enshrined gerontocracy whose average age was 70. The death last January of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 79, lowered the count by one, and last week, as the nation's attention was focused on Brezhnev's funeral, it was rumored that longtime Party Disciplinarian Arvid Pelshe, 83, had also died. If Party Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 76, is on the way out, as the cold reception he was accorded at the Tammany Hall, Soviet-Style
...Brezhnev rites suggests, Andropov could conceivably fill as many as four seats with his own supporters. He may enlist some "younger" recruits among the nine nonvoting members of the Politburo, including Heavy Industry Specialist Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, and Cultural Watchdog Pyotr Demichev...