Word: yuri
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...policy officials had been hoping that Soviet leaders would duly note that Reagan had not sought harsh retaliatory penalties against the U.S.S.R. because of the shooting down of a South Korean airliner by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor, despite all the condemnatory rhetoric out of Washington. And Soviet President Yuri Andropov had remained publicly silent about the air atrocity, leading some in the Administration to wonder whether he might wish to pick up Reagan's cue and offer some fresh arms control proposals of his own. But when Andropov finally did issue a statement last week...
Your article "Making Hostility a Media Event" [Aug. 29] insinuates that Der Spiegel has depicted the U.S. "as a nation of knee-jerk militarists and simultaneously has managed to find the Soviets flexible and reasonable." To support this vague assertion, you quote Der Spiegel on Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace." This quote, which is taken from Der Spiegel's published, abridged version of Andropov, a book by Russian Author and Dissident Zhores Medvedev, who lives in London, presupposes an editorial opinion of our magazine. The complete quote reads: "Signals that he [Andropov] has given...
...shadow of Flight 007 still darkens relations between the two superpowers, but last week both Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov shifted their attention to a matter of far more compelling urgency and long-run significance: the menace of nuclear weapons in Europe...
...Soviet Union, ask the question "Who's in charge?" and the response will likely be a blank look. Back in Washington, Kremlinologists spend the better part of each working day trying to figure out which member of the Central Committee has the upper hand. Officially, of course, Yuri Andropov gives the orders. But because Soviet policy is made behind perpetually closed doors, no one can really be sure...
...more common this phenomenon becomes, the greater the danger for confrontation between the superpowers. Civilian leaders, even in an authoritarian regime, tend also to be politicians, though on an international as opposed to national stage. Yuri Andropov, had he wanted to shoot KAL 007 down, would nevertheless not have done so had he been in charge. His geo-political concerns--like the attempts to "neutralize" Western Europe, court the Third World and avert if possible the deployment of U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles on the Continent--are too great and present in his mind to have permitted such...