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...thing, Soviet officials had insisted that Andropov was recovering. For another, no amount of warning and contingency planning renders the actual event routine when the deceased is the leader of the Soviet Union. So it was with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev-all of whom were, like Yuri Andropov, a long time dying, and all of whose deaths occasioned not just obituaries but portentous talk of epochs and turning points. If Andropov's passing occasioned anxiety as well, it was because questions the experts have been asking for so long could still not be answered...
...this the "Iron Lady"-so christened by Leonid Brezhnev-who used to rival her good friend Ronald Reagan in anti-Soviet sentiments and rhetoric? Only four months ago, while on a visit to Washington, Thatcher had delivered some of her harshest invective ever against the U.S.S.R., accusing Moscow of conducting "a modern version of the early tyrannies of history." Yet things soon changed. Reagan's invasion, against Thatcher's advice, of the former British colony of Grenada and his heavy counterattacks in Lebanon prompted the British Prime Minister's decision to put more distance between herself...
Reagan already flubbed the opportunity to lessen the dangerous cold war mentality that has descended on the superpowers by sending his vice president. George Bush, to Moscow in his place. Reagan's snub, coming on the heels of a similar turn-down upon Leonid Brezhnev's death, only underscores his lack of understanding about the finer points of superpower relations...
...could not be learned whether this meant the 72 year old Chemenko, a senior member of the ruling Politburo, had an edge in the succession When party chief Leonid I Brezhnev died Nov. 10 1982. Andropov was designated to head the funeral...
...apart from his graying and balding comrades, stepped into the second row next to Agricultural Expert Mikhail Gorbachev, 52, and former Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov, 60. Members of the "young guard" in the Kremlin, both have been mentioned as possible successors to Andropov. Silver-haired Konstantin Chernenko, a Brezhnev crony who lost out to Andropov in the succession maneuvering in 1982, took a seat in the front row along with Gromyko and the splendidly beribboned Ustinov. Premier Tikhonov sat in Andropov's green leather chair. (Tikhonov subsequently left Andropov's seat empty...