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...easily spooked by phantoms, went into a sudden swoon just before the State of the Union speech; traders bid the Dow Jones industrial average down almost eleven points on a rumor that the President had decided not to run. That only underscored Reagan's popularity among investors. Soviet President Yuri Andropov, of all people, gave Reagan an indirect boost by issuing a generally conciliatory statement hinting at possible resumption of Washington-Moscow nuclear-arms-control negotiations. By Sunday night Reagan was ready for a party. He summoned 400 campaign officials to a 6 p.m. reception in the East Room...
...likely, given the depth of Soviet feelings toward Reagan, that Moscow will do more in the immediate future than keep communication lines open to the West. Another factor troubling the future of bilateral progress is the uncertain health of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, who has not been seen in public since last August. But there were no suggestions in Gromyko's behavior in Stockholm that he felt constrained by any leadership vacuum in the Kremlin. Said a U.S. diplomat...
Machel, who became last year the first African President to visit Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, has not received a great deal of assistance lately from Moscow, which is still furious with him for his peace-seeking European safari. The Soviet Union did, to be sure, give Mozambique $450 million in military and economic aid between 1978 and 1982. In return, however, it appropriated the country's lucrative fishing industry, along with the income it produced...
...Year's wish is that both Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov carefully read your article...
Moscow may not be willing to listen. The official Soviet news agency, TASS, pointedly noted last month "that neither the Stockholm conference nor bilateral contacts can substitute for the Geneva talks, which were disrupted through the fault of the Reagan Administration." Soviet President Yuri Andropov has not made a public appearance in five months, but the Kremlin keeps signaling that he is actively involved in decision making. Last week Andropov sent a message to a visiting delegation of French peace activists urging that "not a single chance should be missed for a return to the path of talks...