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When the name Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was first mentioned by Economic Planning Chief Nikolai Baibakov, an uneasy silence engulfed the hall. The speakers who followed made frequent references to Andropov and praised his Central Committee report; the 1,500 delegates listened silently or chatted among themselves. Finally, a resolution blaming the U.S. for "the drastic aggravation of the situation in the world" and supporting Andropov's foreign policy position was put forward, and the parliamentarians raised their arms in unison to approve...
...face-off between the countries whose leaders?one operating in full public view, the other as a mysterious presence hidden by illness?share the power to decide whether there will be any future at all. Those leaders, Presidents Ronald Wilson Reagan of the United States and Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, are TIME'S Men of the Year...
Given the KGB's awesome power and a well-earned reputation for ruthlessness and brutality, it had long been assumed that the men who rule the Soviet Union would never allow a secret-police chief to hold the nation's highest post. Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, surmounted that obstacle last November, when he was chosen by the Communist Party's Central Committee to succeed Brezhnev. Andropov was relieved of his job as KGB chief six months earlier and moved to the party Secretariat, but the bureaucratic fig leaf deceived...
...minute of silence in memory of Brezhnev, Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin made his way to the podium. "Comrade Deputies," he began as a hush came over the huge hall, "the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... proposes the election of General Secretary Comrade Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet." The Deputies burst into perfunctory applause. Onlookers in the gallery turned to each other to make sure they had heard the word "Presidium" rather than "presidency." They had. Andropov had been nominated for the 40-member ruling Presidium of the Supreme Soviet...
...Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, is said to be a witty conversationalist, a bibliophile, a connoisseur of modern art?a kind of "closet liberal." He also happens to be the former boss of the world's most powerful, and possibly most feared, police organization...