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...cover painting of the new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, had been engraved and sent to more than a dozen TIME printing plants in September. But the preparation could provide no more than a framework into which the week's news and analysis would be set. One extraordinary example: an exclusive TIME interview last Friday with a KGB defector, now in British hands, who tells how Brezhnev overruled KGB advice about Afghanistan, and how a bloody coup followed...
...special section went into operation. Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt refined the introduction; Blake put final touches on the obituary and on an Andropov profile, then turned to the main news story; Staff Writer John Kohan, who once studied at the University of Leningrad, completed the story on the men Yuri Andropov must work with. In all, the 23-page finished product involved seven writers, 33 correspondents, eight reporter-researchers, much of TIME's layout and picture staff, and five editors. But despite all the precautions, nobody was fully prepared for the week's events. Sums up Kohan: "Even...
...sofa, he promised that "all Moscow will lie at your feet," as a gaggle of diplomats listened with fascination. In spite of his flirtatious ways, he enjoyed a stable relationship with his wife Victoria, and he doted on his three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Son Yuri is a foreign trade official, and Daughter Galina is married to a high Ministry of Interior official...
...death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, but the quick succession of the 75-year-old Soviet leader last week caught even the most seasoned Kremlin watchers off guard United States analysts differed considerably in interpreting the effects on Soviet behavior of the unexpectedly rapid ascension to power of Yuri Andropov, the former head...
...couple embraced and quickly consumed half the bottle of vodka. Then they snuggled up by the fire and watched Star Wars on their new Sony video machine. For the first time in a long while. Yuri Andropov felt secure...