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...been seen in public since mid-February. The most visible contender for the succession is Konstantin Chernenko, 70, a longtime Brezhnev aide who has consistently appeared standing next to the President in recent months. Other Politburo members vying for the succession include Moscow Party Chief Viktor Grishin, Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov and KGB Chief Yuri Andropov...
Lenin's presence in Moscow and Leningrad was particularly conspicuous during the week preceding the November 7 celebrations of the 1917 revolution. Giant socialist-realist canvas murals, sometimes covering the fronts of entire buildings, portrayed his larger-than-life countenance...
Awhile back Richard Nixon presided over a dinner discussion of NATO strategy, which called for a nuclear response to a massive Soviet ground attack. "Would an American President take out Leningrad and Moscow if he knew he would lose New York and Los Angeles?" asked the former Chief Executive, who then rushed on to answer his own question: "No President is going to do that...
DIED. Ayn Rand, 77, novelist and essayist, whose opinions inspired generations of conservatives, irritated liberals and entertained millions; in Manhattan. Born in Russia and educated at the University of Leningrad, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 and wrote the bestselling 1943 novel The Fountainhead, the story of an architect's uncompromising integrity. Yet her distinctive views were perhaps best summarized in the title of a 1965 work, The Virtue of Selfishness...
...crew, which included at least 14 Americans, a Soviet freighter 65 miles east of the rig radioed that it was taking on water and listing badly. Before dawn Tuesday, the 4,262-ton Mikhanik Tarasov-bound from the St. Lawrence River port of Trois Rivières to Leningrad with a load of newsprint-slipped beneath the waves, taking all but five of its 37-man crew to their deaths. By week's end 40 bodies had been recovered from both vessels, and all aboard the Ocean Ranger were presumed dead...