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...turns in Soviet missile bargaining strategy were being pondered, some Muscovites were more interested in a drama that was being played out along Kalinin Prospect, the broad boulevard that leads to the Kremlin. There, Western diplomats last week were atwitter over the reappearance of a morning-and-evening official convoy that has not been seen for nearly four months: two black ZIL limousines, the sort reserved for the Soviet elite, protected front and rear by Volga security sedans. Atop one of the ZILs were red and blue lights, apparently an indication that Andropov was inside. He has not been seen...
Diplomats who have been watching the convoy believe that Andropov now spends mornings at his Kremlin desk, then relaxes for part of each afternoon. At about 5:30 p.m., the motorcade dashes back down Kalinin Prospect, possibly taking Andropov to his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow. Zamyatin sought to reinforce such speculation when he mentioned, during the Moscow press conference, that Andropov "concerns himself in full with party and state affairs...
...typical delivery is a convoy of the beer truck, a car filled with security men, and another car with union members inside with literature urging retailers and pedestrians not in purchase-the-beer...
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...signal its concern, the Reagan Administration announced that three ships, with 2,000 Marines aboard, were on their way to the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal. Administration officials contended that the convoy, which had beefed up the naval contingent off the coast of Lebanon, was no longer needed there. Although Washington described the maneuver as routine, its timing seemed to belie the official explanation. It was also revealed last week that the White House wanted to revive a plan, first floated by Henry Kissinger in 1975, to train and equip up to two Jordanian army divisions to serve...