Word: presidium
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...prove to be the most collective Soviet leadership since the first years of the Brezhnev era. A major test of his personal power will come when the Politburo decides who will assume two other posts left vacant after Andropov's death: the largely ceremonial position of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, in effect President, and Chairman of the Defense Council, a shadowy group that oversees national security policy (see chart). If Chernenko fails to be named to either post, he may prove to be little more than a caretaker...
...blank for a moment, and then the outlines of a familiar face with heavy spectacles appeared. Kirilov continued to intone offscreen: ". . . with deep sorrow inform the party and the entire Soviet people that Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, died after a long illness at 16:50 on Feb. 9,1984." The face on the screen was Andropov...
Gromyko is the second top-level deputy to Tikhonov who has been appointed under Andropov. At a meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet last November, onetime Azerbaijan KGB Chief and Party Leader Geidar Aliyev, 59, was also moved into the government's ruling inner circle. Gromyko's elevation to the same rank as Aliyev may have been intended to check the ambitious Azerbaijani...
...memory of Brezhnev, Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin made his way to the podium. "Comrade Deputies," he began as a hush came over the huge hall, "the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... proposes the election of General Secretary Comrade Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet." The Deputies burst into perfunctory applause. Onlookers in the gallery turned to each other to make sure they had heard the word "Presidium" rather than "presidency." They had. Andropov had been nominated for the 40-member ruling Presidium of the Supreme Soviet...
...follows the lead of his predecessors, Andropov may also go after a post in the government. Brezhnev assumed the job of President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1977, thus becoming titular head of state. Both Stalin and Khrushchev held the post of Premier or Chairman of the Council of Ministers...