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...When Leonid Brezhnev died last week, TIME's staff went to work with the unaccustomed help of months of planning...
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...WEST HAD LONG BRACED itself for the death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, but the quick succession of the 75-year-old Soviet leader last week caught even the most seasoned Kremlin watchers off guard United States analysts differed considerably in interpreting the effects on Soviet behavior of the unexpectedly rapid ascension to power of Yuri Andropov, the former head...
WHEN FORMER KGB CHIEF Yuri Andropov was named Thursday to head the organizing committee for Leonid Brezhnev's funeral, no serious Kremlinologist was surprised. The signs had been pointing that way for three years, ever since a loan Andropov had applied for to buy the apartment next to Brezhnev's had been approved Since then, Andropov's bosses had granted his request for a brand new Volga sedan. And they had even given him a full extra week's paid vacation that his hadn't asked...
Washington is officially saying little about the trip, during which the 200 American delegates may attend a dinner with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Delegates are fully aware, however, that they must avoid running afoul of the U.S. ban on the sale of certain high-technology products as well as those related to the pipeline. The purpose of the two-day visit, says Council Spokesman William Forrester, will be to "seek ways of expanding permissible trade." That leaves the door open for a vast array of products ranging from spark plugs to fertilizer...