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Central Asia and Siberia, and was lucky enough to be able to proclaim a bumper wheat crop for 1956. In 1960 he succeeded Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in the post of Soviet President. Brezhnev took advantage of the undemanding job to travel widely outside the U.S.S.R. as a spokesman for Khrushchev's foreign policy. In 1964 he was a member of the conspiracy against his former mentor that forced Khrushchev into retirement. Brezhnev's reward: the high-ranking post of First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1966 Brezhnev assumed the grander title of General Secretary that had been...
Born to a Russian peasant family in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, Chernenko was trained as a party propagandist. After a meeting in postwar Moldavia with Brezhnev, then local party boss, Chernenko was brought to Moscow in 1956. By the time Brezhnev took over the party in 1964, he had made Chernenko his chief of staff. Chernenko arranged Brezhnev's appointment schedule and kept close watch on the daily operation of the party bureaucracy...
Dolgikh, who seems to have taken on the job of overseeing development of West Siberia's extensive oilfields, has been cast as a man who might be able to improve the struggling Soviet economy. But his relative youth could keep him from being given the chance for some time...
...change of leadership in Bonn has not alleviated West German resentment about President Reagan's ban on the sale of U.S.-licensed European-made equipment and technology to the Soviets for the 3,000-mile Siberia-Europe natural gas pipeline. Like Schmidt, Kohl has made it clear that West German companies, such as giant Mannesmann, which has $390 million in pipeline contracts with the Soviet Union, should honor their commitments. That resolve hardened when the Reagan Administration last month announced its decision to sell the Soviet Union 23 million tons of wheat, or 15 million more than last year...
...Siberia, USSR. Troll women in scarves and boots refill water tanks on train. Read every page of Time (People first): Wash hair in second-class sinkroom with Eddy (black suds). Stand at window and sing first verses of camp songs...