Word: viktor
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...Viktor Khitrichenko, 48, a senior engineer in the economics section of the Soviet embassy in New Delhi for the past two years, last Thursday began ordinarily enough. The Indian chauffeur took the diplomat and his wife shopping, and then began driving back to the embassy. It was noon when the driver steered the off-white, Soviet-built Volga onto Satya Marg, an expansive boulevard in the heart of the capital's exclusive Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave...
...Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev might visit the U.S. this year. Late last week the Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun quoted Viktor Afanasyev, editor in chief of Pravda, as saying that a "strong possibility" exists that Gorbachev will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September. There was no word on whether Gorbachev would also meet with President Reagan, who proposed a summit meeting in a letter to Gorbachev following the death of Konstantin Chernenko...
...weakening themselves: he would have time to build up his own power base and patronage network, which would gradually impinge on theirs. That is probably why they chose Chernenko 13 months ago. Indeed, they could have exercised the same option last week, turning to Andrei Gromyko, 75, or Viktor Grishin...
...appear last Friday to deliver an address to his Moscow constituents. The occasion was the eve of national elections for members of the Supreme Soviets, the nominal legislative bodies of the 15 Soviet republics. Instead, the assembled delegates and a national television audience were told by Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin, 70, that Chernenko would not attend the meeting "on the recommendation of his doctors." It was the first formal acknowledgment to the Soviet people that Chernenko has health problems...
...Communist Party daily, Pravda, listed him as one of four candidates to represent Moscow districts in elections for the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet, or parliament, of the Russian Republic scheduled for Feb. 24. The other three candidates: Chernenko, Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, and Politburo Member and Moscow Party Chief Viktor Grishin...