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...being made in the twelve-man Soviet Politburo. Specialist opinion varies widely, but there is broad agreement that the Kremlin is preoccupied by the recurring problem of succession. The process is more complicated and painful than usual because it is the third period of uncertainty in two years (Leonid Brezhnev died in November 1982, Yuri Andropov last February). The upshot, says Harvard University Professor Richard Pipes, is "a profound crisis and lack of direction." Kremlinologist Marshall Goldman of Wellesley College in Massachusetts calls the Politburo situation "the worst of all circumstances. Everyone knows Chernenko is sick, so no change...
...paper. Eyeball to eyeball he softens, not hardens. He listens, smiles, talks softly, encouragingly. What will Gromyko hear? How will he size up the leader of the free world? We still wonder whether Nikita Khrushchev's assessment of John Kennedy launched the Cuban missile crisis and whether Leonid Brezhnev's contempt for Jimmy Carter encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...from the fact that he has not been seen or heard from since he began his vacation at an undisclosed location on July 15. The new Soviet leader has issued no policy statements and summoned no leaders from the Warsaw Pact for private chats in the Crimea, as did Leonid Brezhnev during his summer vacations. Chernenko also passed up the opening ceremonies of the Friendship '84 Games, Moscow's answer to the Los Angeles Olympics, letting Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev preside in his place. None of this proved that Chernenko's health, already frail, has deteriorated...
Chernenko: Oh yes, I remember that guy Back before he took over from Leonid. Yuri had your boys do a check on him Tried to get him to acquiesce in our subversion campaign against Harvard students. It was no problem. We got that Core passed through the Faculty with barely a whimper. So what's going on in Cambridge...
Sokolov's execution shocked many people because he had influential friends, among them the family of the late Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. For years, the flamboyant Sokolov provided high Soviet officials with gourmet foods that are rarely seen in Soviet stores. In exchange, he lived a privileged life: he was said to own several ZILS, the Soviet-made limousine reserved for high party officials, as well as country homes outside Moscow. But the government apparently decided to make an example of Sokolov as part of the Kremlin's campaign against corruption, and the store manager was found guilty...