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...Cheysson took back to Paris last week after a five-day visit to the Soviet Union. Cheysson, who has never been known to hide behind diplomatic euphemisms, is one of the first Western government ministers to have conferred at length with Andropov since the Communist chief replaced the late Leonid Brezhnev last November...
...walks and carries himself indicates he is not physically agile. Disappearances from public life in the past suggest some bad health, probably cardiovascular trouble. Compared with Leonid Brezhnev in his final years, Andropov seems alert and durable. But those few Americans who have seen him face to face (Vice President Bush and Secretary of State Shultz are two of only a handful) report that he seems more fragile than most men his age. Shultz noted that Andropov acted like "a man who had been in charge." Still, analysts are not yet convinced he has full control in the Kremlin...
Four hours after the funeral of Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev last November, an incident that would have seemed improbable in the most contrived spy thriller unfolded in the Green Room of the Kremlin. As leader of the American delegation attending the Brezhnev burial, Vice President George Bush had been invited for a private chat with the new Communist Party chief, Yuri Andropov. The atmosphere was stiffly formal. Bush, who had been director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1976 to 1977, tried to break the ice with a bit of humor. Said the Vice President: "I feel I already know...
Reagan seemed also to have stolen a march on the Soviets. Leonid Brezhnev had been achieving considerable success with his "peace campaign" and his call for a moratorium on nuclear weapons in Europe. Suddenly that appeal seemed pale compared with Reagan's dramatic proposal "to get rid of an entire class of missiles," as Nitze...
...move against Medvedev added weight to evidence that Party Leader Yuri Andropov has stepped up the campaign against independent thought that he had begun as head of the KGB. Said Medvedev, who had predicted as early as 1978 that Andropov would succeed Leonid Brezhnev as party leader: "People have been asking me about the new Andropov government, and I've been saying that it's going to be strict on the one hand and appear to be intellectual on the other. However, we've seen plenty of examples of its being strict and so far little intellect...