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...state-controlled press downplayed these boosts and stressed news of simultaneous price cuts. Many were on goods that few people want, like black-and-white TV sets. State Price Chairman Nikolai Glushkov, who, like other party bosses, can shop in special low-price stores, insisted with a straight face that gasoline was raised by popular demand. Russian drivers, he said, complained that they were paying too little compared with the rest of the world...
Ever since Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev booted President Nikolai Podgorny out of office and assumed the presidency himself last June, Kremlinologists have been speculating about who might be named to the newly created post of Vice President. A Veep was needed to take over the fatiguing ceremonial functions of the presidency, like scooting out to the airport to meet visiting chiefs of state and pumping the hands of ambassadors at diplomatic receptions. Brezhnev, 70, reportedly ailing with arteriosclerosis and leukemia, was regarded as too old and frail for such chores. His selection of a Vice President might suggest...
...life of a double agent is not an easy one. Consider the case of Nikolai Artamonov, a former Soviet navy captain who defected to the U.S. in 1959 and later became a double agent, employed by the FBI under the name of Nicholas Shadrin. When Shadrin went to Austria in 1975, ostensibly on a skiing vacation, he stopped off in Vienna for a prearranged meeting with two Soviet secret policemen who thought Shadrin was their agent. While his wife waited in their luxurious suite in the Hotel Bristol, Shadrin kept a rendezvous with the two KGB officers on the steps...
Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev made his first trip abroad last week since he jostled Nikolai Podgorny out of the Soviet presidency (TIME, June 6) and added that largely honorary title to his other calling-card credits. On a three-day visit to France, Brezhnev frequently behaved less like a President than like an emperor...
...that the CIA failed to anticipate the sharp Soviet rejection of President Carter's sweeping arms-limitation proposals, carried to Moscow by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (the State Department itself should have foreseen this). Nor did the agency predict the political demise last month of Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny. Carter was annoyed at the CIA's failure to forecast the Likud coalition's upset victory in last month's Israeli election. In China, the CIA seemed surprised by the rise of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, the vilification of Madame Mao and the rehabilitation of Vice...