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...Konstantin U. Chernenko: What? Did Dobrynin finally defect...
They were apparently overruled, however, by the faction within the ruling Politburo that is staying true to Andropov's anticorruption efforts. It is not known if Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko is included in this group. Speculation has it that the chief watchdog is Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, who is thought to have been Chernenko's closest rival for the top party job. In recent weeks scores of other arrests have been reported. Among those apprehended were seven officials of Roskontsert, the government agency that arranges orchestral concerts. They have been sentenced to terms ranging from three to 13 years...
...proclaimed: "The totalitarian world is a tired place held down by the gravity of its own devising, and America is a rocket pushing upward to the stars." Despite the purple prose, he seemed to be genuine about pursuing the talks. He wrote a personal letter to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, which echoed his public stand on the proposed space talks. The letter and a message from Shultz were given to Dobrynin to take back to Moscow. Heading home, the Ambassador stepped off his plane during a London stopover to find a band playing the Star-Spangled Banner and a crowd...
...idea is that Ronald Reagan leans back in his leather barrel chair, takes out his felt-tipped pen, looks out over the Rose Garden and writes a note to the other member of the superpower club, Konstantin Chernenko...
...guests had sat down at a huge U-shaped table in the Kremlin's frescoed Palace of Facets for the official Soviet banquet in honor of French President Francois Mitterrand. No sooner had the caviar appeared than the traditional toasts began. Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, who had been enjoying hearty laughs with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, remained seated as he pulled out his prepared text. He began predictably enough by saluting the two countries' longstanding friendship, but then moved into a calibrated criticism of France for supporting NATO's deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Western...