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...analysis of Chernenko. The new leader has a round face, indicating a stubbornness that is typical of a Russian peasant. In spite of this, people from this background are easier to negotiate with and to handle. They are emotional, honest and, if properly approached, rational. In contrast to Chernenko, Yuri Andropov had the profile of a Western intellectual, and this image initially misled the world. There is no mask on Chernenko...
Soviet leaders, since they are not elected by their citizens, do not represent the will of their people but are just spokesmen for the Communist cause. It will take more than the death of Yuri Andropov [Feb. 20] to reduce U.S.-Soviet tensions...
...missions. Another East German gesture was a quiet decision to begin dismantling some of the automatic firing devices aimed at preventing escapes along the border. East Germany has turned control of Berlin's entire surface rapid-transit system over to West Berlin. On the eve of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's funeral in Moscow last month, Chancellor Kohl asked East German President Erich Honecker to dinner and reissued a longstanding invitation to him to visit West Germany...
...Manifestly, he has traveled a vast distance since 1964, when he was convicted as a "social parasite" in Leningrad and forced to serve as a laborer on a state farm for 20 months. Unfortunately, some other greatly talented poets, including Lev Losev, Henri Volokhonsky, Dmitri Bobyshev and Yuri Kublanovsky, have yet to find translators who will help them break out of isolation...
...characterized, stopped in its spin. In the past couple of weeks, the press has stood chest-high in choices. In Lebanon: one more last battle for Beirut; the disintegration of the Gemayel government; the pull-out of the U.S. Marines. In the Soviet Union: the death of Yuri Andropov and the succession of Konstantin Chernenko; a funeral in red. In Iowa: the small beginnings of an American presidential election; the first funny hats and toots of the horns. In Sarajevo: one more Winter Olympics done; memories on videotape; the ice dancers Torvill and Dean synchronized, as if accidentally, like birds...