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After the funeral, Vice President George Bush, French President Francois Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and a long line of other distinguished visitors quietly filed past Chernenko's grave. Then they passed through the Kremlin gates to meet the new man in charge...
...socialism. Is there really a trend toward conservatism? Or is there simply a trend against the people who happened to be in office during the economic crisis--between 1975 and 1982--and (who) were often Socialists or Social Democrats? In Germany, for example, you had Helmut Schmidt, and he was beaten. In periods of difficulty there is a feeling of selfishness. Maybe the traditional way the Social Democrats and Socialists had of intervening, with its emphasis on the state, was a bit too heavy. Our ways of thinking about our problems had to be questioned. It is true in France...
...dollar. Among the leading advocates of this theory are Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, who was chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers until he resigned last summer. Their views are widely shared in Western Europe. Wrote former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the newspaper Die Zeit last week: "The astounding recovery of (Reagan's) economy over the past 24 months and his view of the economic future rest largely on other people's money...
...confirmed by former Diplomat Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect since World War II (see SPECIAL SECTION). Says he: "They have never decided on a new leader before the old one is dead"--or, in the case of Nikita Khrushchev, deposed by collective agreement. Adds Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Soviet expert at Washington's Brookings Institution: "How could it be otherwise when it is an autocratic, dictatorial, almost monarchical system? The only difference is there is no biological heir...
Exactly, says the architect, Helmut Jahn: "Technically, spatially, functionally and symbolically, this is something new." That was what Illinois Governor James R. Thompson wanted when he ordered the building in 1979 as a workplace for some 3,000 state employees. Thompson, who chose the design from three offered by Jahn, has already moved his Chicago office there, although the $172 million structure does not officially open until May. "It was a lot of money and a radical design," says Thompson. "But I felt that sometimes only government can afford to take the chance to do something really different...