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...journalists who crammed the visitors' gallery animatedly discussed only one topic: Would there be a selection of the next President of the Soviet Union? Since Leonid Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, the ceremonial and highly visible post has been vacant. Kremlin watchers now wondered if Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who had so swiftly succeeded Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Communist Party, would also aspire to a second title as head of the Soviet state...
...high-ranking Soviet official said in an interview yesterday that Yuri V. Andropov's accession to power in Russia would produce no major shift in Soviet policy toward the United States...
...hopes to step out from Brezhnev's shadow, Yuri Andropov will have to re-make the Communist Party in his own image. A key for the new General Secretary will be to place his own people at the top of the tentacular bureaucracy that carries out the will of the Kremlin leadership. Long excluded from the corridors of power during the Brezhnev era, a generation of party officials in their 40s and 50s will be carefully watching whom Andropov is able to put in important posts in the coming weeks and months. These choices will affect not only Andropov...
There are few tales to be told about most of the men who rule the Soviet Union from splendid isolation in the Kremlin, but Yuri Andropov is a curious exception. As onetime Ambassador to Hungary, he has had more contact with foreigners than many of his comrades who have spent their careers at home. Now that he has stepped into the international limelight, scattered details and vignettes from his past have begun to emerge, adding both light and shadow to the Andropov portrait...
...U.S.S.R.'s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 surprised most U.S. Kremlin-watchers. So did Soviet inactivity during the recent war in Lebanon. After Leonid Brezhnev's death two weeks ago, American Kremlinologists were still suggesting the names of his potential successors when Yuri Andropov was chosen...