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...find the Soviets flexible and reasonable." To support this vague assertion, you quote Der Spiegel on Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace." This quote, which is taken from Der Spiegel's published, abridged version of Andropov, a book by Russian Author and Dissident Zhores Medvedev, who lives in London, presupposes an editorial opinion of our magazine. The complete quote reads: "Signals that he [Andropov] has given at the beginning of his tenure are contradictory, yet in foreign affairs he has already engaged himself quite clearly for world peace...
...found Medvedev's observations on Andropov's political career quite interesting. But he is not and never has been a member of our editorial staff...
NONFICTION: Andropov. Zhores A. Medvedev •The Book of America, Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey Lost in the Cosmos. Walker Percy Marcel Proust: Selected Letters, Philip Kolb, editor •The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
Since then, Andropov has barely mentioned his predecessor. Meanwhile, his much touted drive against corruption has continued to target Brezhnev's old pals, including General Nikolai Shchelokov, the former Minister of Internal Affairs. But the anticorruption campaign has affected too many highly placed officials, Medvedev notes, and Andropov's policy has met with powerful resistance. As a result, the drive has recently been toned down...
...Medvedev argues that Andropov, for all his shrewdness, remains beholden to the old, entrenched bureaucracy. Now 69, he has "waited for supreme power for too long," says Medvedev. "If he wants to make his mark on history, he must move faster than his predecessors." Andropov's recent track record, Medvedev observes, indicates that he is capable of quick action in foreign policy but has repeatedly gone into reverse when it comes to meeting his people's main desire for "at least a moderate level of political democracy...