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With each passing year the Nov. 7 parade before a lineup of Kremlin leaders atop the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square has come to resemble a mystery play rather than a military pageant. Leonid Brezhnev died only three days after he made a faltering appearance in biting weather in 1982. His ailing successor, the late Yuri Andropov, gave hints of his imminent demise when he failed to show up for last year's ceremony. This year it was Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov who was missing. Questioned by a Western reporter, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin allowed that Ustinov...
President Reagan tells Andrei Gromyko [NATION, Oct. 8] that, from the days of Vladimir Lenin to the current leadership of Konstantin Chernenko, Moscow's policy has been to promote world revolution. Maybe so, but this philosophy did not concern Americans before World War II. As an engineering student during the Hoover Administration, I had Soviet students in my classes. I also knew American engineers who had helped design and build a steel plant in the Soviet Union. After World War II, the two countries became antagonists in a cold war that continues to this day. Perhaps it is time...
Reagan, a bit tense initially, referred in his opening remarks to a statement he had written out in longhand. From the days of Vladimir Lenin to the current leadership of Konstantin Chernenko, he said, Moscow's policy has been to promote world revolution. In U.S. eyes the Soviet Union is still an expansionist state, and Americans naturally are worried. The President quickly followed, however, with his explicit recognition of Soviet status as a superpower and disavowal of any American desire to change its system. The U.S., said Reagan, does not seek military superiority over the Kremlin; it wants...
Chernenko's latest appearances, within days of his 73rd birthday, were hastily arranged. One occasion was the presentation of the Order of Lenin to Harilaos Florakis, head of the pro-Soviet Communist Party of Greece. During the proceedings, Chernenko looked visibly weaker than he had two weeks earlier. He leaned on the corner of a desk for support and had difficulty breathing as he read his prepared text. Three nights later, Chernenko turned up again on the news program, giving a strained, five-minute message to the Finnish people...
Graham, 65, had been pointing for this evangelical undertaking since 1959, when he made his first trip to the U.S.S.R. During a quick visit to Moscow's huge Lenin Stadium, he recalls, "I bowed my head and prayed that God would one day open the door and let me preach the Gospel in Russia." In more recent years he has preached in Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, but always with a Soviet mission in mind. Then in 1982 he attended a Moscow peace conference and stirred one of the biggest flaps of lis career. He made remarks...