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...back on their word or are opportunistic. Even the everyday inflationary talk of politics bothers the earnest Glenn. He says that too much gets promised. When he sat listening to Walter Mondale tell a California convention of Democrats that if elected he would right now, today, get Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov on the hot line and arrange a meeting right now, that very afternoon, Glenn in private showed disdain. He spotted Candidate Alan Cranston wearing a button that read STOP ACID RAIN NOW and shook his head. The emphasized now was too much for him. Glenn will offer no pies...
Several days later, the Kremlin proffered a sudden and surprising olive branch. The wartime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, W. Averell Harriman, met for 80 minutes with Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov and quoted him as saying that "the Soviet Union is ready and interested in searching for joint initiatives, which would make the present situation easier." There was no way of knowing whether Andropov's conciliatory tone was prompted by Williamsburg, or whether it was even genuine. Some diplomatic sources were cynical about Andropov's arms, suggesting that he was merely firing another salvo in his "peace offensive...
...became one of its new rulers. Elevated to the Politburo in 1966, Pelshe headed the Party Control Committee, which oversees the discipline of party members. His death reduces membership in the Politburo, which has numbered as many as 16, to a scant eleven, prompting speculation that Party Chief Yuri Andropov may soon make appointments...
...year-old Iran-Iraq war. Egypt, which all but severed diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1981, is on the verge of exchanging ambassadors with Moscow once again. There are even reports that Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has sent a letter to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov pleading for Soviet help in resolving the Iran-Iraq war. Andropov is said to have made a good impression so far on the moderate Arabs, particularly in contrast with the weak and vacillating Leonid Brezhnev...
Since he replaced Leonid Brezhnev last November, Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov has, whether by choice or political necessity, maintained a low domestic profile. Now, however, the name of the stooped and often visibly tired former KGB chief is beginning to sprout more frequently on the front pages of Soviet newspapers. Moreover, in a long Pravda article published last week, Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov for the first time referred to Andropov as Chairman of the Defense Council. The new title meant that Andropov now holds a post equivalent to commander in chief, thereby occupying two of the three top positions...