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...public opinion changing over the past year as a result of U.S. missile deployment in Western Europe, the breakdown in U.S.-Soviet arms talks, skepticism over American policies in Central America and Lebanon, and the U.S. move into Grenada. The U.S. presidential election and uncertainty about Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's health were further reasons for her "deep concerns about relations between East and West," she observed. After four years devoted almost entirely to domestic and economic matters, Thatcher, who has been in office longer than any other leader of a major nation in Western Europe, sees herself...
...late Yuri V. Andropov headed the KGB, true enough. To see this as sufficient cause for a graveside jig, however, is to prove oneself blind to the glaring irony of this new diplomatic development. Reagan sent Bush because he would not stoop to any act, regardless of its diplomatic or humane merits, that might further detente's evil cause. But Bush is far more than a mere executive flunkie. We should all remember, now more than ever, that George Bush ran the Central Intelligence Agency...
...DEATH OF THE Soviet Union's most mysterious and short-lived ruler Yuri V. Andropov was announced last week, leaving his successes a myriad of domestic and foreign policy problems, not the least of which is the current chill in superpower relations. While it is hard to mourn a man for all intents and purposes dead for several months--who became a frightening parody of the fabled Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984. Andropov's death serves as a depressing reminder of how little progress the U.S. and the Soviet Union have made in this decade...
MOSCOW--Soviet President Yuri V Andropov died late Thursday after only 15 months in power, a rule that began with promises of change and ended with the former KGB chief trying to govern a superpower from his sickbed...
WASHINGTON--Soviet leader Yuri Andropov underwent a kidney transplant within the last 24 hours and is serlously ill, CBS News reported last night...