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...lure Jews out of the Soviet Union has collapsed." According to official figures, Soviet emigration to Israel has indeed slowed to a trickle, from a high of 50,000 in 1979 to just 220 in the first four months of this year. For the many who cannot leave, said Viktor Fulmakt, 39, an underemployed computer programmer, "life has become extraordinarily difficult...
Still, Brezhnev's protégé could find a place in a troika of the old guard that might include such other also-rans as Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, 78, or powerful Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin, 69. Grishin remains a favorite compromise candidate. He has an insider's view of the party bureaucracy and saw something of the world when he traveled abroad as leader of the official trade unions movement. A younger member of the old elite, Grishin is not likely to rock the boat and could lead a caretaker government, but he lacks a position on the party Secretariat...
...highest levels, the sprawling Soviet military narrows into a streamlined chain of command. Directly under Minister of Defense Dmitri Ustinov, a member of the top-secret Defense Council headed by Andropov, are Viktor Kulikov, commander in chief of the Warsaw Pact forces, and Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Ogarkov. The commanders of the Soviet services take their orders from Ogarkov...
...certainly conveyed no sense of paralysis." In Moscow, Viktor Afanasyev, editor in chief of Pravda, dropped hints in an interview that Andropov might reappear as early as next week. He also confirmed rumors that the Soviet leader was suffering from a kidney ailment, aggravated by influenza. In any case, the elder Andropov was not so critically ill that his son Igor, a diplomat who has participated in a number of recent East-West conferences, could not join the Soviet diplomatic team in the Swedish capital...
Almost simultaneously, Warsaw Pact Commander Marshal Viktor Kulikov, speaking on the eve of a Soviet bloc foreign ministers' meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, outlined the retaliatory measures Moscow is prepared to take in the event of deployment. Kulikov vowed that the Soviets would "deploy additional nuclear weapons to offset NATO'S growing nuclear might in Europe and we shall take corresponding countermeasures with regard to U.S. territory." It was another explicit warning that Moscow is prepared to introduce new missiles into Eastern Europe and mount new cruise-type missiles on refurbished submarines that could patrol U.S. coastal waters. Though...