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...official Tass news agency yesterday announced Andropov will be buried Tuesday in Red Square, and said party ideologist Konstantin Chemenko would head the funeral commission...
...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...
...some observers suggested the Politburo was observing standard protocol by putting Chemenko the senior party secretary in charge...
...Kremlin hierarchy decides a younger man is needed, the strongest contenders are considered to be Mikhail S. Gorbachev, 52. Ronstantin I. Chemenko, an Andropov adversary who has been named to head the temporary caretaker government. The other two names widely mentioned are Mikhail Gorbachev, the youngest Politburo member at 52 years old, and Grigory Romanov, the hard line Leningrad Communist Party chief...
...Beissinger said that Romanov was the most likely choice because he is the most "staid and conservative" of the three possible presidents. Chemenko, at 72, is too old and would constitute "another caretaker government," while Gorbachev at 52, is "too young and would scare conservatives," he said...
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