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...strong army, exert a strong influence in both military matters and the running of government ministries. Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile-Mariam, 41, the U.S.-trained officer who presides over the ruling Dergue, or council, holds frequent meetings in the old Imperial Palace with Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Fomichenko. Ethiopia buys virtually all its oil from the Soviet Union, and since 1977 the Soviets have supplied the country with arms and military hardware worth $2 billion. In return, the Soviet Union has a drydock and other naval facilities on the Ethiopian-controlled Dahlak Islands...
...delegates of the Supreme Soviet rose to their feet to deliver a tumult of applause, Yuri Andropov's strained face stared ahead without a smile. Hurriedly, the leadership pushed through the session's most important item of business. After an effusive nominating speech by Konstantin Chernenko, Andropov's principal rival on the Politburo, the delegates voted unanimously to confer upon Andropov the ceremonial but authoritative post of President of the Soviet Union...
...Defense Council. The new title meant that Andropov now holds a post equivalent to commander in chief, thereby occupying two of the three top positions once held by Brezhnev. (The office of President remains unfilled.) Some Kremlinologists infer that Andropov has been consolidating his powers over rivals like Konstantin Chernenko, a onetime Brezhnev protege, who has not been seen in public since March...
...Moscow, meanwhile, rumors of a continuing power struggle resurfaced last week when Andropov's presumed chief rival, Politburo Member Konstantin Chernenko, 71, failed to show up at Lenin's Mausoleum for the May Day festivities. His office explained that Chernenko, who has not been seen in public since March 30, was suffering from pneumonia. Andropov, wearing tinted glasses, seemed tired and frail; two days later, when he presented Honecker with the Order of Lenin, his hands trembled, further fueling rumors that he is not well...
Kaminskaya continued to represent dissidents during the next decade, thus falling deeper into official disfavor. Neither her logic nor her famed oratory proved sufficient to win an acquittal in a single political case. After being harassed by the Soviet secret police, Kaminskaya and her husband Konstantin Simis, also a lawyer, were summarily ordered to leave the U.S.S.R...