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Workers at the Lenin shipyard, in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, laid down their tools on Aug. 14 and refused to leave. As news of the strike spread, an unemployed electrician named Lech Walesa climbed over the shipyard's iron-bar fence and into history. Under his leadership, the workers demanded higher wages, an earlier retirement age, better food supplies and, in a daring political challenge to the regime, the right to organize independent trade unions...
Once again Leonid Brezhnev confounded the doomsayers who had placed him at death's door since he reportedly suffered a stroke five weeks ago. Making his second public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square to watch the annual May Day parade. Wearing a gray overcoat and fedora as protection against a drizzling rain, the 75-year-old leader looked wan and weary as he waved weakly at the tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who marched by carrying banners, artificial flowers...
...bound by an oath of confidentiality as regards his patients-including the President. "American doctors would understand that perfectly," Chazov said. "They would also understand that if anyone were to reappear in public two weeks after a stroke-well, it could only be a miracle." Chazov was awarded the Lenin Prize last month for helping to develop a drug that quickly dissolves blood clots. When asked if the drug had lately been used on Brezhnev, the physician replied that "there was no need...
Grishin announced that the keynote speech at the Lenin celebrations would be made by KGB Chief Yuri Andropov. There was another murmur of surprise. The selection of Andropov, 67, to deliver the speech was a sign that he had risen in the Politburo hierarchy and might now be in line for Brezhnev's job when the party chief dies or retires...
...indeed already dead. Some Western press accounts fueled the speculation. So it was with great anticipation that Soviet citizens waited by their television sets last week to learn whether the Soviet leader would turn up as scheduled at the festivities marking the 112th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof was present at the Kremlin ceremonies. His report...