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...longtime Brezhnev supporter. But Chernenko's present low ranking (seventh in the Politburo hierarchy) and his lack of executive experience may rule him out for the top post in an interim government. The most obvious candidate to replace Premier Kosygin is First Deputy Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, 75, who has already assumed many of his boss's functions...
...Alexander Tikhonov's teammates hurling him in the air after his smooth skiing and deadeye shooting helped them win the four-man biathlon relay. For the Soviet army major, it was an unprecedented fourth gold in four Winter Olympics...
Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov had put Myshkin in the nets to replace starter Vladislav Tretiak at the end of the first period, which ended in a 2-2 deadlock...
...angular, thin-lipped economic planner from the southern Ukraine, Tikhonov is considered by Kremlinologists to be a loyal follower of President Leonid Brezhnev, 72, and a probable successor to ailing Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 75. Rumored to have suffered a heart attack, Kosygin has not been seen in public since mid-October, and Tikhonov has been carrying out his official duties...
...Tikhonov's place as one of nine non-voting alternate members of the Politburo was taken by a relatively young unknown, Mikhail Gorbachev, 48, who for the past year has been the Central Committee's secretary in charge of agriculture. Gorbachev, apparently, was not blamed for a disastrous 1979 grain harvest. Largely because of bad weather, Brezhnev announced, this year's crop amounted to only 179 million tons-47 million tons short of the target, and the worst harvest since 1975. The U.S.S.R. has already contracted to buy 25 million tons of American wheat and corn...