Word: ustinov
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...leadership had come close to using nuclear arms on China. He had been at the Politburo discussion. He said that Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Defense Minister, actively advocated a plan "once and for all to get rid of the Chinese threat." Grechko, a dim-witted martinet replaced by Dimitri Ustinov in 1976, called for unrestricted use of the multimegaton bomb known in the West as the "blockbuster." The bomb would release enormous amounts of radioactive fallout, not only killing millions of Chinese but threatening Soviet citizens in the Far East and people in other countries bordering China...
...explanations given out about Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months. Just a few weeks before his death, Andropov was said to be recuperating from a slight ailment. A similar denial was issued shortly before Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov died from a heart attack...
...even if Chernenko might remain, in a strictly ceremonial capacity, as President of the U.S.S.R. Gorbachev's main competitor for the leadership, the Sunday Times said, was still Politburo Member Grigori Romanov, 61. Yet another rumor circulating in the corridors of Whitehall had it that the late Defense Minister Ustinov had left a last will and testament urging the Politburo to choose Gorbachev as party leader...
...gained much in political clout or influence lately. Also, his Leningrad background is a handicap in the Moscow-centered world of Kremlin politics. Nonetheless he remains a major candidate in the eyes of many analysts, on the basis of having avoided appointment as the successor to Defense Minister Ustinov, a job that would probably have taken Romanov out of contention for party leadership...
...predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months, had been said by Kremlin officials to be recuperating from a slight ailment just a few weeks before his death. On Nov. 7, Politburo Member Victor Grishin told a Western newsman that Marshal Ustinov had only "a little sore throat." Ustinov died of cardiac arrest following pneumonia...