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...repackaging the hard line, not to softening it. His cleverness failed about the same time as his kidneys. The Euromissile deployment went ahead on schedule at the end of 1983, just as Andropov was becoming a disembodied voice communicating to the world and to his own people through ghostwritten Pravda "interviews...
...real surprise came the next day when Soviet citizens lined up at newspaper kiosks to buy Pravda. The front page of the Communist Party daily was not dominated by a black-bordered picture of the late Soviet President, as had been the case when Brezhnev and Andropov died; readers had to turn to the second page for a glimpse of Chernenko. Instead, the front-page space was devoted to the official portrait of the new leader, a balding, round-faced man, and the announcement that Mikhail Gorbachev, 54, had been chosen by the Central Committee as General Secretary...
Indeed, the Soviets appeared to have few illusions about their wily guest. In a bitter attack on Papandreou only a year ago, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda pointed out that his Socialist party had campaigned on pledges to pull the country out of NATO and close down U.S. bases in Greece. Today, more than three years later, Greece remains in the alliance and a new U.S.-Greek base agreement has been negotiated. Editorialized Pravda: "There are many objective obstacles on the way to progressive changes." Said a Moscow-based Western diplomat: "The Soviets must wonder if Papandreou ever means what...
...impression on the West during his seven-day trip to Britain last December. Along with Politburo Members Geidar Aliyev, 61, and Vitali Vorotnikov, 59, Gorbachev was an Andropov protege. His standing as the probable front runner appeared to get a powerful endorsement last month: the official Communist Party daily, Pravda, listed him as one of four candidates to represent Moscow districts in elections for the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet, or parliament, of the Russian Republic scheduled for Feb. 24. The other three candidates: Chernenko, Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, and Politburo Member and Moscow Party Chief Viktor Grishin...
...contrast to the total U.S. contingent of nearly 400 news personnel, the Soviets sent just 20. And while an avalanche of advance stories in U.S. media built up hopes for a breakthrough, Moscow's Pravda noted the start of the talks in a terse, dry item on page 4. The agreement, however, became major Soviet news. Pravda even carried a rare photo, of Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...