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...over Moscow's refusal to accept blame for the incident. As a result, there was a preponderance of East bloc officials at the ceremonies. Along with the Soviet veterans came Vyacheslav Kochemasov, Moscow's Ambassador to East Germany, and General Mikhail Zaitsev, commander of Soviet forces there. General Yuri Naumenko read a message from Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who described the first Elbe meeting as "the symbol of hope and friendship" and called on veterans and young people to "prevent the fire of war from burning our earth." A few of the U.S. veterans were concerned about President Reagan...
Petty soon realizes that there will be problems even after the nuclear war has taken place. What about the inevitable post-nuclear invasion of Soviet troops? Since Soviet leader Yuri Andropov never responded to his invitation to visit Cherry Drive and sign a treaty, Petty decides to fortify his house and garden against such an invasion. But the bank promptly denies the pair a loan to purchase the necessary hardware, forcing Petty and Roger to launch a fundraising drive for their tanks and aircraft. They ask Prince Charles to appear at a teatime piano concert featuring one of their neighbors...
Unlike the words of Chernenko and Yuri v. Andropov neither the new leader's autobiography nor his collected speeches appear to have been published in their English or Russian and Gorbachev is too young have mattered back before World War II, when reality was not completely filtered though the ideological scrubbers...
Speculation about who would eventually replace Chernenko began almost from the moment he was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party in February 1984. He delivered a wheezing, gasping eulogy at the Red Square funeral of Yuri Andropov and could not hold his hand up in a salute. During the months that followed, bouts of poor health forced him to slip out of public view for weeks at a time, but he always reappeared at Kremlin ceremonies that were carefully contrived to hide his trembling hand and stumbling step. Chernenko made his last public appearance on Feb. 28 to receive...
...will Gorbachev cope with this dilemma? During his speech to the Central Committee last week, he referred to "speeding up the country's social and economic development," a strategy that he associated with the name of Yuri Andropov. The allusion was revealing. During Andropov's 15-month reign, the former KGB chief launched a campaign against worker absenteeism and nomenklatura corruption. At least one prominent black marketeer, with connections to the family of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was executed. Andropov fired several industrial ministers and began to appoint younger, more professional executives to senior posts. Andropov also...