Word: nikolai
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...their places onstage, spectators scrutinized the lineup for possible changes in the pecking order. Konstantin Chernenko, 70, took his usual place at Brezhnev's right side, indicating that he was still the heir apparent. On Brezhnev's left was another strong candidate, Grishin. Then came Prime Minister Nikolai Tikhonov, 76, Andropov and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 73, who are all contenders. Conspicuously absent was Andrei Kirilenko, 75, the former No. 2 man in the Politburo, who is believed to be ill or in disfavor, and has not been seen for the past three months...
...most credible line of speculation is that Brezhnev was suffering either from exhaustion or from a slight stroke when he returned from Tashkent, and is now recuperating. Nikolai Blokhin, president of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, told colleagues at a conference of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War held in Cambridge, England, that he had spoken to Brezhnev only days before and had invited him to meet with the organization's leaders later this year. Insisted Blokhin: "President Brezhnev is taking his routine winter vacation...
...Nikolai Gogol, Letter on Jerusalem...
...DIED. Nikolai Kamanin, 73, Soviet air hero who piloted a flimsy two-seat biplane in 1934 to help rescue 50 members of an Arctic expedition and who 26 years later, as an air force general, became the first commander of the Soviet Union's cosmonauts; after a "grave illness"; in Moscow...
...best argument for a freeze is simply the acceleration of the arms race itself Attitudes are hardening on both sides. The American Administration refused to even consider modifying its plans to build thousand of new nuclear weapons during the next decade And, in a recent official pamphlet. Marshall Nikolai V. Orgakov, the highest-ranking officer in the Soviet military, vowed that the Soviets will keep pace with the United States no matter what the cost...