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Paradoxically, the new Soviet leader has been widely described in the U.S. and European press as a liberal and an intellectual with pro-Western leanings. Since Andropov (pronounced an-dro-pof) left the KGB last May, this impression has been fostered assiduously by the Soviets in an effort to soften his image. A number of Soviet intellectuals in Moscow, Soviet tourists abroad and Emigres in the West have been making a point of portraying him as a cultivated man, not at all what one would imagine a top policeman to be like...
...Yuri Andropov?unreconstructed Stalinist despot or pro-Western reformer? Little is known about him, and even less can be surmised from the bare facts of his career. Says Historian James Billington, director of Washington's Woodrow Wilson International Center: "The successor had to rise through the system, and the garb he put on for the ascent is not necessarily the garb he will wear when he is in power...
...Bank is at least as likely to plunge the region into chaos as are the combined threats of Arab radicalism, Islamic fundamentalism and Soviet adventurism. In that respect, they see the U.S. as part of their problem rather than part of the solution. Therefore the dilemma: even the most pro-Western leaders in the region have been reluctant to cooperate closely and openly with American policies that are intended to bolster their own security...
...mullah who had lived in Bahrain during the rule of the Shah and fomented trouble among the Shi'ites there. After the fall of the Shah, Modaresi returned to Iran, and he has been among the principal organizers of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain. Pro-Western Arab intelligence organizations believe that Modaresi is also head of a so-called Gulf Affairs Section of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and that he has had connections with the Soviet...
...shops in the downtown area were boarded up, concealing the shattered windows and vacant shelves left behind by an orgy of looting. Occasionally, sprawled corpses could be seen on city streets, evidence that a tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most pro-Western and pro-capitalist countries. All told, at least 129 Kenyans were dead and an additional 100 missing last week after the suppression of a bizarre coup that, though it failed, cracked the veneer of Kenyan stability, which has endured during 19 years of independence...