Word: premieres
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...Soviet policy. After the meeting the Vice President issued a conciliatory statement that said, "The challenges, while enormous, are far from insurmountable." Soviet officials below Andropov voiced even more soothing words. The most notable came from Nikolai Tikhonov, who holds what in the U.S.S.R. is the subordinate title of Premier. Said he: "The Soviet Union has been and is for normal and, even better, friendly relations with the United States. There were such relations in the past, and they can again become a reality...
...Historian Bertram Wolfe unwisely described Brezhnev as "an insignificant transition figure in a new interregnum." Initially, Brezhnev shared authority in a triumvirate with Premier Alexei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny. By 1973 he had elbowed aside any rivals for power. He placed allies in principal positions in the party hierarchy and increasingly emerged as chief spokesman for the Politburo. On trips abroad he was treated as head of state, even though he did not formally assume that title again until after Podgorny's dismissal...
While many world leaders, including French Premier Pierre Mauroy and Indian Prime Minister Gandhi, announced that they planned to attend Brezhnev's funeral, Reagan rejected the arguments made by Secretary of State George Shultz, National Security Adviser Clark and CIA Director William Casey that the President's presence would be a gesture of conciliation toward the new Soviet leadership. Instead, Reagan decided to send a delegation headed by Shultz and Vice President George Bush, who interrupted a seven-nation visit to Africa. The decision drew immediate criticism. Reagan's failure to go to Moscow, said Massachusetts Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas...
...have to be content with the largely symbolic post of Soviet President. Or Boris Ponomarev, 77, a onetime historian, who seemed the ideal candidate to fill the role of party "theologian" before Andropov took the job held by the late Mikhail Suslov. Not elder statesmen like Brezhnev's Premier, Nikolai Tikhonov, 77, a man with more experience in government than in the party apparatus, or the widely traveled and urbane Central Committee Secretary Konstantin Rusakov, 72, who lacks a vital prerequisite: Politburo membership. One contender seems to be on the way out. Party Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 76, used...
This criticism of government officials is a new movement in the Chinese press, since the Chinese government began to relax its censorship. Zou claims that the Central Broadcasting Station she once worked for now criticizes government officials as high as ministers and even the vice-premier, but this is unusual, Zou admits. "You still have to have courage, much courage...