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...naming a new President could have been a sign that a Kremlin power struggle was still in progress, but the prevailing view in Moscow was that after moving so smoothly to take control of the party, Andropov thought it more prudent to hold back from assuming the post that Brezhnev himself had waited 13 years to take. Indeed, caution seemed to be the watchword for the Soviets' new leader. Andropov had been expected to put his own stamp on the party hierarchy almost immediately, but he made only two important appointments last week. In his first major speech...
Westerners who have met Aliyev find him personable, polished and not one to duck a question. Earlier this year, when a visiting diplomatic delegation in Baku asked him to explain how Brezhnev's new agricultural policy would work, he cockily replied, "These are things we already did months ago in Azerbaijan...
...visit of Vice President Bush and Secretary of State Shultz to Moscow for Brezhnev's funeral, and their talk with General Secretary Andropov, strike Soviet leaders as an overture that could lead to better relations...
...change of government-nor a coup d'état! The change of leader can have some importance, of course, but we have had a collective leadership in the Soviet Union for years. The Central Committee and the Politburo were the chief decision-making bodies under Brezhnev, and they will be under Andropov...
Some of the businessmen had been afraid that the death of Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev five days before the trade session was to begin would force a cancellation. But according to retired Armco Inc. Chairman C. William Verity Jr., Soviet trade council officials were on the telephone within two hours after Brezhnev's death was announced, urging the Americans to come ahead. To Verity, co-chairman of the trade group, that was a hopeful sign that the Soviets felt that "the time had come for an improvement in relations...