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Indeed, examples of the excitement of our times unfolded all week long. Within minutes of the predawn news of Yuri Andropov's death, TIME'S editors were gathering to discuss the magazine's coverage and to deploy correspondents and photographers. In Moscow, Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, worried by the melancholy music on his morning radio but not yet knowing that a Soviet notable had died, prepared himself for a stressful day by a half-hour jog through the capital's slippery streets. His weekend turned into a marathon of interviews with Soviet and diplomatic sources about...
...thing, Soviet officials had insisted that Andropov was recovering. For another, no amount of warning and contingency planning renders the actual event routine when the deceased is the leader of the Soviet Union. So it was with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev-all of whom were, like Yuri Andropov, a long time dying, and all of whose deaths occasioned not just obituaries but portentous talk of epochs and turning points. If Andropov's passing occasioned anxiety as well, it was because questions the experts have been asking for so long could still not be answered...
Foremost in everyone's mind was the distressing knowledge that Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov had not been seen in public since Aug. 18, however often his name had been evoked in print and over the air waves. But in a nation where political successions have brought both terror and hope, the idea that another change in command was under way after little more than a year seemed hard to believe. Soviet citizens knew Andropov was ill, but many, uneasy with the prospect of a new transition, believed reports that he was convalescing. So a guessing game began. Some Soviets thought...
...recent death of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov is cause for solemnity. No matter how great his sins, how horrible his tyranny, how terrible the suffering he caused, he was a fellow human being, a thinking, breathing, feeling being whose life was sacred...
...YURI ANDROPOV IS DEAD and the Reagan Administration seems to think it has won a gunfight. The tact-less, admonitory lone of the Reagan letter of condolence and the Secretary of State's call for "new contacts" have the air of a gunfighter dictating terms; one would imagine the president holding his pistol to the hotline while saying, "Now get up slow...