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Curiously, Talbott opens himself to such criticism by occasionally treating the Soviets with equal disdain. In his Prologue he comments on a quote by Yuri Andropos in January...
...participation. Thus it is often all but impossible, even long after the fact, for a news organization to detect that it has been the victim of disinformation. One classic instance that took months to expose: the rash of stories planted among Western journal ists that the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was a fan of jazz and Western fiction and a closet liberal...
...Soviet Politburo. Specialist opinion varies widely, but there is broad agreement that the Kremlin is preoccupied by the recurring problem of succession. The process is more complicated and painful than usual because it is the third period of uncertainty in two years (Leonid Brezhnev died in November 1982, Yuri Andropov last February). The upshot, says Harvard University Professor Richard Pipes, is "a profound crisis and lack of direction." Kremlinologist Marshall Goldman of Wellesley College in Massachusetts calls the Politburo situation "the worst of all circumstances. Everyone knows Chernenko is sick, so no change is possible...
Some Kremlin watchers see a parallel between Chernenko's absence and that of the late Yuri Andropov, who went on holiday in August 1983 and did not reappear in public before his death nearly six months later. Chernenko, however, is known for taking long vacations: he was absent from Moscow for nine weeks last summer. The Soviet leader may simply be taking another long vacation this year. If so, however, he will have to reappear at least by the last week in September, when Finland's President Mauno Koivisto is scheduled to pay an official visit to Moscow...
Another Grand Prix winner was Yuri Sedikh, the tanklike Soviet hammer thrower. He seemed to expend more effort in getting to Budapest than in tossing the hammer more than 22 ft. farther than the winning mark in Los Angeles, setting a new world record. After his coach forbade him to participate, he appealed to the Soviet Sports Minister, who allowed him to make the trip. After his triumph, he appeared wistful in an interview. A winning statistic is still only a statistic, and to athletes there remains something magical about a gold medal. Sedikh may have been speaking for several...