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...tension in the hall was palpable. The door opened. A murmur raced through the vast theater: "He's there!" And he was, emerging behind Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin, 67, who as chairman of the ceremonies was first out the door. Brezhnev walked stiffly across the stage, only a bit more slowly than before his disappearance. Many in the audience were smiling now that the mystery that had gripped the country was happily resolved. As applause mounted, Brezhnev applauded back in a display of mutual appreciation of his powers of survival...
...been seen in public since mid-February. The most visible contender for the succession is Konstantin Chernenko, 70, a longtime Brezhnev aide who has consistently appeared standing next to the President in recent months. Other Politburo members vying for the succession include Moscow Party Chief Viktor Grishin, Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov and KGB Chief Yuri Andropov...
...after Brezhnev, more likely to take over following Brezhnev's resignation or death, Kirilenko has been absent from recent state functions. But whether Kirilenko or Chernenko wins out, either one of the septuagenarians could end up serving only as a caretaker while such "younger" Politburo members as Viktor Grishin, 67, and Grigori Romanov, 59, vie for position. If so, neither the power struggle nor the rumormongering in Moscow will cease for long...
While Westerners fretted about language difficulties and transportation, Soviet officialdom worried aloud about sinister influences. The chief of the Moscow City Communist Party, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin, said Muscovites should be cordial to visitors, but he exhorted them to "stress the advantages of the Soviet way of life ... and repulse the propaganda of alien ideas and principles...
...Comrade Grishin should pay special heed to the likes of Alfred Mayes, 18, an affable light-middleweight boxer from St Louis. Mayes likes to have his outsize portable tape player blaring disco music when he skips rope, and he did not alter that regimen for last week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...