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...dealing with foreign powers too the President has been self-confident and assertive. Secretary of State George Shultz last week had barely begun to list the pros and cons of the President's going to Moscow to attend the funeral of Konstantin Chernenko and meet the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, when, seeing Reagan's wry smile, he stopped and said to the President, "I can tell by the look on your face . . ." Reagan interjected, "Yes, but go on." To no one's surprise, the President decided not to go--because, explained a senior aide, Gorbachev "is not yet ready...
Although not part of the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Seviet Premier Konstantin U. Chernenko last week in Moscow, Cambridge City Councilor Francis H. Duchay '55 payed a visit to the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. to express his condolences to Chernenko's family and people on behalf of the people of Cambridge...
...youth, Soviet military strength and scores of other stories. But no subject has preoccupied him more deeply than the waning lives and deaths of the Soviet Union's superannuated rulers. Since November 1982, Amfitheatrof has attended the obsequies for three top Soviet leaders, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, as well as those for the powerful Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov...
Clouding the arms talks was the continuing leadership muddle in the Kremlin. President Konstantin Chernenko was seen twice on Soviet television last week, ending a public disappearance that lasted nearly two months, but the taped glimpses only served to heighten concern about his poor health. Chernenko, who is believed to suffer from emphysema, looked wan and frail in both appearances; in one, he seemed to be breathing with difficulty. Though he had professed to be hopeful about the outlook for arms negotiations in a speech that was read in his name a few days earlier, the TV footage made...
...Would Like to Live When I Grow Up." Perhaps there would be evidence that the students had absorbed the aspirations of New Soviet Man, an idealized citizen devoted to the good of society and for whom the Communist Party has searched since 1917. Only 18 months ago, President Konstantin Chernenko reminded the nation that "the molding of the New Man is an imperative condition in the building of Communism." Moreover, Moscow Intellectual Fyodor Bulatsky had recently argued that in Soviet society, which is thought to have done away with bourgeois values, it was time to ask what standards to expect...