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...young party chief's reputation pleased two important spa guests: Mikhail Suslov, then the chief Soviet ideologist, and KGB Chief Yuri Andropov, both austere figures disgusted by the corruption of the Brezhnev era. When Kulakov died in 1978, he left vacant the position of Communist Party Central Committee Secretary in charge of agriculture. To fill it, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, presumably acting on the advice of Suslov and Andropov, chose a man he had evidently met only recently: Gorbachev. That meeting occurred on Sept. 19, 1978, at the tiny railroad station in Mineralnye Vody, where Brezhnev's train stopped...
...crew is scheduled to return to earth New Year's Eve along with last week's third space traveler, a scientist on a short-term mission. By then Commander Yuri Romanenko will have spent 328 consecutive days in space, shattering the Soviet record of 237 days and leaving the U.S. record of 84 days in the cosmic dust...
...representing ground stations. Mir's position was marked by a blue-green light, which was moving slowly across the circle centered on Moscow. The flyby would take only eight minutes, after which the window of communication would close. The audio feed came through with startling clarity, as if Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko were standing in the next room. "The work here is very interesting," he said in response to a question that had been posed in writing by TIME Correspondent Dick Thompson. "It brings us a lot of satisfaction...
...13th trip. A student of Russian since prep school days, he has served as TIME's diplomatic correspondent and has written four books on relations between the two superpowers. Early on, Talbott spotted Gorbachev as a political comer -- a little too early, it turned out. "When Yuri Andropov died in February of '84," he recalls, "we had an office pool on the succession, and I put a dollar on the dark horse, Gorbachev. I lost. It wasn't until Konstantin Chernenko's death 13 months later that...
...veteran director, Yuri Grigorovich, 60, has a new generation of dancers to show off. Only a handful of the principals on the company's 1979 visit returned, including two senior ballerinas, Natalya Bessmertnova (Grigorovich's wife, who was sidelined almost at once by a leg injury) and Lyudmila Semenyaka. Equally important, after 23 years at the helm, Grigorovich is presenting his finished vision of what the world's largest and most celebrated ballet company ought...