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Because of the new Soviet leader's long career as chief administrator of the Central Committee and as Leonid Brezhnev's appointments secretary, many Western analysts had dismissed Chernenko as a faceless bureaucrat who would always be everyone's second choice for the job. Now he was being seen as the last-gasp leader of a gerontocracy intent on keeping the younger generation from moving too quickly into the corridors of power. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "If Andropov had lasted another four months, I don't think Chernenko would have made...
...fact, it would be a dramatic return to more traditional approaches in arms control. The framework borrows heavily from the rules and structure of the SALT II treaty, which was never ratified by the Senate after it was signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and which the Administration has ritualistically denounced as "fatally flawed." It permits considerably more trade-offs between areas of U.S. strength, bombers and cruise missiles, and those of Soviet strength, ballistic missiles...
...about what he represents. He is a Russian who was raised in Siberia, and his background marks him as both peasant born and a man of the people. He spent more than 40 years laboring patiently in the party apparatus. For 34 of those years, he was associated with Leonid Brezhnev, acting as a friend, confidant and aide-de-camp. It was Chernenko who turned up Brezhnev's hearing aid and, on occasion, ordered the translators to speak louder so the old man could hear. The best of good soldiers, he was Brezhnev's choice for the succession. But when...
...received a diploma from a teachers' college, the Kishinev Pedagogical Institute. The luckiest break in his career came in 1948, when he was sent to the former Rumanian province of Moldavia, where a frenzied "Sovietization" campaign was in progress. Chernenko became the chief of Agitation and Propaganda, or Agitprop. Leonid Brezhnev subsequently was named first secretary of the Moldavian branch of the party. Not long after Brezhnev took over the Soviet party leadership from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964, he moved Chernenko to Moscow and made him head of the party's General Department, where...
...friends met seven U.S. college students en route from Kiev to Moscow last summer. Suspicion dissolved into excited questions on topics ranging from rock music to nuclear war. But the answers are not always trusted. Told that Americans do not have to serve in the Army any more, Leonid was skeptical...