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...official Tass news agency yesterday announced Andropov will be buried Tuesday in Red Square, and said party ideologist Konstantin Chemenko would head the funeral commission...
Moscow may not be willing to listen. The official Soviet news agency, TASS, pointedly noted last month "that neither the Stockholm conference nor bilateral contacts can substitute for the Geneva talks, which were disrupted through the fault of the Reagan Administration." Soviet President Yuri Andropov has not made a public appearance in five months, but the Kremlin keeps signaling that he is actively involved in decision making. Last week Andropov sent a message to a visiting delegation of French peace activists urging that "not a single chance should be missed for a return to the path of talks...
...first news from the closed-door Central Committee plenum came early in the evening. The official TASS press agency wire fell silent and then, as Western newsmen hovered over their teleprinters, the news agency's English-language service clicked back to life, teasingly printing out a test line again and again: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs." Then came an equally puzzling message. The Central Committee members had "acquainted themselves" with the text of an Andropov speech, reported the TASS dispatch. But had they heard Andropov speak? When the text of the address finally clattered over...
...gambit emerged as the Soviet leadership was setting a deadline for dealing with a major internal issue: the fact that Andropov, 69, has not been seen in public since Aug. 18. Last week, the official news agency TASS announced that the country's rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme Soviet, would hold its semi-annual meeting on Dec. 28. The Communist Party's Central Committee will probably hold a closed-door session one or two days earlier. Both are gatherings that Andropov would normally chair. Deepening the mystery, the Kremlin disclosed that Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 75, would...
Sokolov was arrested last year for accepting bribes. Some of the caterer's influential acquaintances appealed in his behalf, to no avail. After Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, 1982, his successor Yuri Andropov launched a campaign against high-level corruption. Last week TASS announced that Sokolov had been sentenced to death and that four of his assistants were given long prison terms. Stiff penalties for corruption are not infrequent in the Soviet Union, but before Andropov's crackdown they were rarely imposed on someone as well connected as Sokolov...