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...Andropov's announcement last week, Western analysts were struck by the manner of its delivery: it came in an interview, rather than in an address made in person by the Soviet leader. Inevitably, there were questions about his physical and political wellbeing. "Where is the man?" asks U.S. Kremlinologist William Hyland. "Is he an apparition?" Andropov has not been seen in public since Aug. 18, and Hyland has noticed an uncharacteristic tendency of Soviet leaders recently to emphasize different aspects of Soviet policy with little apparent coordination. "That's just not the Soviet way," notes Hyland. "It suggests...
...Union. Even the Central Intelligence Agency admits that it is having trouble providing the kind of analysis needed by U.S. policymakers. Says a CIA spokesman: "It is becoming more difficult to recruit graduate students who have a real understanding of Soviet internal affairs." Notes Paul K. Cook, the top Kremlinologist at the State Department: "The number of well-trained senior Soviet specialists just suffices for the moment, but within five to ten years they will all be gone. The situation is severe and getting worse...
Reagan and company hoped that their reputation as hard-liners would nudge the Soviets toward more cautious, pragmatic and inward-looking leaders than those who have ruled the U.S.S.R. until now. Richard Pipes, a Harvard historian who has served as the Administration's senior Kremlinologist, is convinced that a struggle has been going on for some time between young Turks who advocate domestic economic reform and an old guard that wants to continue the traditional pattern of compensating for internal failures by pursuing foreign successes, often in the form of military adventures...
WHEN FORMER KGB CHIEF Yuri Andropov was named Thursday to head the organizing committee for Leonid Brezhnev's funeral, no serious Kremlinologist was surprised. The signs had been pointing that way for three years, ever since a loan Andropov had applied for to buy the apartment next to Brezhnev's had been approved Since then, Andropov's bosses had granted his request for a brand new Volga sedan. And they had even given him a full extra week's paid vacation that his hadn't asked...
...message seemed to be tailored for his military audience, and may have been a concerted effort to reassure the Soviet defense establishment that the civilian leadership would not be one-upped by the Reagan Administration's increases in U.S. defense spending. Said William Hyland, a noted Kremlinologist: "It is as if Brezhnev were saying to the armed forces, 'I'm still in charge. I'm not dead yet. I'm here with my team...