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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andropov, who became Soviet leader after the death of Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, continued to groom Gorbachev as a key lieutenant. After Andropov was incapacitated by kidney disease in late 1983, it was Gorbachev who reportedly shuttled daily from the Kremlin to the hospital outside Moscow where Andropov lay hooked up to a dialysis machine. "During his last months, Andropov ran the U.S.S.R. through Gorbachev," says one Soviet historian. Gorbachev's time to run the country in his own name had not yet come when Andropov died in February 1984. The Kremlin Old Guard conferred the leadership...
...help nuclear-plant operators quickly interpret the kind of instrument readings that confused technicians at Three Mile Island. On a Digital Equipment computer, newspaper specialists from Composition Systems exhibited a program that lets editors accommodate late- breaking news by reducing from hours to minutes the time it takes to lay out and print a new edition...
...bought a swimsuit. That was no surprise to some. "Mel didn't like to swim," said Medina County Police Detective James Bigam, who came to know Wiley when they worked in the Medina sheriff's office in the 1970s. He suspected the answer to the disappearance lay in Wiley's ways...
...chief's literary ambition that prompted Bigam to examine the ribbon in Wiley's electric typewriter. And thereon lay a tale. Wiley had written someone a most revealing letter. "Where I've gone," he typed, "is of no critical importance and it's very doubtful that I'll ever return . . ." Just 16 days after the disappearance, Bigam issued the sort of announcement that might have been found in a whodunit by Agatha Christie (herself famous for a never explained ten-day absence in 1926). Wiley, said Bigam, had apparently "acted out the last chapter of his book . . . and rode...
...suspect the problem was a bit of everything, but I have to take most of the blame myself. The brunt of the problem lay with...