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Mikhail Gorbachev's public campaign against corruption in the Soviet Union is now touching the friends of former President Leonid Brezhnev and his family. Acquaintances of Brezhnev's daughter Galina and his son Yuri are reportedly being questioned about bribery involving the use of posh hotel rooms and of restaurants for private banquets attended by well-connected figures from the Brezhnev era. The state-controlled press, without mentioning Brezhnev by name, has criticized the cronyism fostered during his 18-year rule...
...tenure TIME's editorial staff made me particularly proud with three special issues -- on the Soviet Union (1980), Japan (1983) and immigrants (1985) -- and with its prizewinning coverage of the 1984 Olympics and the presidential campaign. TIME was among the first Western publications to interview Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and China's Deng Xiaoping. The magazine continues to have unrivaled access to the world's newsmakers. When Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was ready to reach an international audience, he outlined his views in TIME...
...compared with the U.S. fleet, which has dwindled to six. Sailing from Genoa, Tilbury (England) and Rotterdam, the liners offer rates 15% to 20% below those of most Western ships. Travelers give Soviet cruises high marks. A group from Lisieux, France, who sailed the Norwegian fjords on the Leonid Brezhnev in May, was enchanted by everything from crew members, who danced "Russian," to inexpensive vodka, and frog's legs for dinner...
Unlike their Western counterparts, Soviet leaders almost never meet with foreign journalists. One of the rare exceptions occurred in 1979, when Leonid Brezhnev received Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan for a formal interview. Last week, at the same long Kremlin table, aided by the same translator, the same three editors became the first Western newsmen to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev. What was new was the vigor and directness of the host. "Instead of delay, there was a definite aura of efficiency," said Cave. "The session...
Andropov, who became Soviet leader after the death of Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, continued to groom Gorbachev as a key lieutenant. After Andropov was incapacitated by kidney disease in late 1983, it was Gorbachev who reportedly shuttled daily from the Kremlin to the hospital outside Moscow where Andropov lay hooked up to a dialysis machine. "During his last months, Andropov ran the U.S.S.R. through Gorbachev," says one Soviet historian. Gorbachev's time to run the country in his own name had not yet come when Andropov died in February 1984. The Kremlin Old Guard conferred the leadership...