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...flight to Zurích with his wife Lilly. The solemn exchange took place on a remote runway nearly a mile from Zurich's Kloten Airport. Corvalán was then flown to Moscow for a hero's welcome and star billing at Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's 70th birthday party on Sunday...
...since Stalin became a septuagenarian in 1949 has there been such an outpouring of praise in the Soviet Union. Newspapers daily headlined Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's long record of accomplishments. He was festooned with medals from the Communist states of Eastern Europe. His life was depicted in a documentary film, his collected speeches were issued in new editions, and the official news agency Tass carried a synopsis of his career that covered eleven feet of Teletype paper. These celebrations underscored Brezhnev's position as the sole survivor among the big-power leaders of the past decade. Lyndon...
...Brezhnev at 70 looks in robust health, negating rumors over the past three years that he was nearing the end of the road because of cancer or leukemia, gout or heart trouble. He has given up smoking at the insistence of his doctors. He puts in a busy schedule. His one concession to age is that he now wears a hearing aid in public. There is no indication that he plans to retire voluntarily, which would be an unprecedented action for the top Soviet leader...
...been dealt with ruthlessly. One, the relatively youthful Alexander Shelepin, 58, was dismissed from the Politburo almost two years ago and has not been heard of since. The sin of Whiz Kid Shelepin was that he tried to build a political base from which to promote his own post-Brezhnev candidacy for the top post. Another highly regarded younger man. Dmitri Polyansky, 59, had the misfortune of presiding as Minister of Agriculture during last year's disastrously poor grain harvest. Brezhnev blamed the harvest on bad weather but sent Polyansky packing as Ambassador to Japan anyway...
...Brezhnev's departure from power could set off a struggle for succession, since there is no designated heir. The closest thing to a favorite has been Andrei Kirilenko, a colorless functionary who sometimes stands in for Brezhnev when he is on vacation. But Kirilenko is also...