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...bureaucrats, generals, diplomats, scientists, academicians and workers who make up the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Even before they entered the yellow-and-white Council of Ministers building, they knew what they were there to do. They would ratify the choice already made by the Politburo, that of Yuri Andropov, 68, to be Brezhnev's successor as party chief. The post has been held by only five men since the Bolshevik Revolution: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgi Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. Shortly after noon Friday, Andropov, the son of a railroad worker from the northern Caucasus, became...
...Yuri Andropov becomes the first KGB boss to run the country...
...Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, is said to be a witty conversationalist, a bibliophile, a connoisseur of modern art?a kind of "closet liberal." He also happens to be the former boss of the world's most powerful, and possibly most feared, police organization...
...Yuri Andropov?unreconstructed Stalinist despot or pro-Western reformer? Little is known about him, and even less can be surmised from the bare facts of his career. Says Historian James Billington, director of Washington's Woodrow Wilson International Center: "The successor had to rise through the system, and the garb he put on for the ascent is not necessarily the garb he will wear when he is in power...
...Yuri Andropov happens to glance over his shoulder, he will see a dozen or so men who thought they too had a shot...