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Somber in tone and menacing in content, that announcement by Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov last week was far from unexpected...
With their walkout in Geneva, the Soviets abruptly ended a complex and controversial episode in the history of arms control. Even if they eventually return to the bargaining table, it will almost certainly not be until after they have taken the military "countermeasures" that Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov listed last week. That escalation in the arms race would require significant changes in the negotiating approach of both sides...
...little more than a month later, the new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, made a live television address that in effect presented this offer. The British and French governments rejected the idea that their nuclear weapons should be on the table in Geneva at; all the superpowers, they said, had no license to bargain over the independent deterrents of other countries. But to many West Europeans, Andropov's proposal sounded Like a major concession. It also amounted to a tacit admission that the Soviets already had a large excess...
TASS, the Soviet news agency, showed no such reluctance in publicizing the fate of a Moscow store manager. Yuri Sokolov, former director of the Gastronom No. 1, Moscow's finest food store, was renowned for being able to supply his customers with such rare or rationed delicacies as caviar, smoked sturgeon, coffee and Indian tea. As caterer to the capital's elite, Sokolov lived in high style and had friends close to Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
Sokolov was arrested last year for accepting bribes. Some of the caterer's influential acquaintances appealed in his behalf, to no avail. After Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, 1982, his successor Yuri Andropov launched a campaign against high-level corruption. Last week TASS announced that Sokolov had been sentenced to death and that four of his assistants were given long prison terms. Stiff penalties for corruption are not infrequent in the Soviet Union, but before Andropov's crackdown they were rarely imposed on someone as well connected as Sokolov...