Word: brezhnevs
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...colored mostly in drab grays and black. Then two officers in tall Astrakhan hats appeared, carrying the late leader's 21 medals, including Orders of Lenin and Orders of the Red Banner of Labor on red satin pillows. It was exactly half the number of medals that had accompanied Brezhnev to his grave...
...moment of grief as any Russian woman would. For many Soviets witnessing the scene on their television screens, that moving glimpse of private pain seemed to cut through the hundreds of thousands of words that spewed forth in official obituaries and were scarcely different from those that had marked Brezhnev's passing...
...fact, it would be a dramatic return to more traditional approaches in arms control. The framework borrows heavily from the rules and structure of the SALT II treaty, which was never ratified by the Senate after it was signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and which the Administration has ritualistically denounced as "fatally flawed." It permits considerably more trade-offs between areas of U.S. strength, bombers and cruise missiles, and those of Soviet strength, ballistic missiles...
...what he represents. He is a Russian who was raised in Siberia, and his background marks him as both peasant born and a man of the people. He spent more than 40 years laboring patiently in the party apparatus. For 34 of those years, he was associated with Leonid Brezhnev, acting as a friend, confidant and aide-de-camp. It was Chernenko who turned up Brezhnev's hearing aid and, on occasion, ordered the translators to speak louder so the old man could hear. The best of good soldiers, he was Brezhnev's choice for the succession. But when Andropov...
...unimpressed. "He is a dullard," says Malcolm Toon, the tart-tongued former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, who met Chernenko at the SALT II talks in Vienna in 1979. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration's National Security Adviser, remembers Chernenko as "a very cautious bureaucrat, very deferential to Brezhnev, not forceful, not dynamic." The fact that Chernenko was "the least competent, the least likely to innovate [of the contenders]," Brzezinski believes, is probably advantageous to the U.S. and perhaps for East-West relations...