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...talk of summitry, the President said if Brezhnev were to attend a special disarmament conference, he would be pleased to meet with him. He described that as something different from summitry. That does not represent being driven in any way by Soviet policies. Perhaps even just the opposite, if you think hard about...
...that the keynote speech at the Lenin celebrations would be made by KGB Chief Yuri Andropov. There was another murmur of surprise. The selection of Andropov, 67, to deliver the speech was a sign that he had risen in the Politburo hierarchy and might now be in line for Brezhnev's job when the party chief dies or retires...
Since March 25, when Leonid Brezhnev first vanished from public view, wave upon wave of rumors has swept through the Soviet Union that the 75-year-old President had suffered a stroke. Ignoring the official explanation-that Brezhnev had merely gone away on vacation-Muscovites swapped reports that he was dying or indeed already dead. Some Western press accounts fueled the speculation. So it was with great anticipation that Soviet citizens waited by their television sets last week to learn whether the Soviet leader would turn up as scheduled at the festivities marking the 112th anniversary of the birth...
...with 5,000 people. In the audience, high-ranking Communist Party officials, military officers, diplomats and journalists all had their eyes fixed on the empty stage. They knew that at 5 o'clock sharp, a door would open and the members of the Politburo would file in. Would Brezhnev be among them...
...tension in the hall was palpable. The door opened. A murmur raced through the vast theater: "He's there!" And he was, emerging behind Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin, 67, who as chairman of the ceremonies was first out the door. Brezhnev walked stiffly across the stage, only a bit more slowly than before his disappearance. Many in the audience were smiling now that the mystery that had gripped the country was happily resolved. As applause mounted, Brezhnev applauded back in a display of mutual appreciation of his powers of survival...