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Such a challenge to church authority would have been unthinkable in the days of Glemp's predecessor, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died in 1981. The much revered prelate had preserved, almost singlehanded, the authority of the Polish church during more than three decades of Communist rule...
Shultz was supposed to be everything his volatile predecessor, Alexander Haig, had not been: calm, collegial, steady. Unlike Haig, he would avoid squandering his clout on bureaucratic spats. A former business-school professor, Treasury Secretary and president of an international corporation, Shultz came to the job with a thorough knowledge of world economics and a feel for Middle East affairs...
After a state funeral for Andropov in Red Square attended by thousands, Chernenko received more than 170 foreign dignitaries amid czarist-era splendor in the Kremlin's Hall of St. George. Unlike his predecessor, who had engaged in reception-line diplomacy following Brezhnev's funeral, Chernenko shook hands stiffly, his face rarely creasing into the smile of the practiced politician. He did not appear to greet such Communist stalwarts as Cuban Leader Fidel Castro or Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski with any more enthusiasm than he greeted Vice President George Bush or British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
Judging from Chernenko's speech, the new Soviet leader seems intent on doing just what his predecessor did?at least for the immediate future. In the area of foreign policy, Chernenko does not appear to be any more willing than Andropov to resume nuclear arms talks. Nor does he seem to be eager for an early summit meeting with Reagan. Given Chernenko's limited experience with diplomacy and defense, he will probably rely on the advice of two Politburo veterans, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Ustinov. Richard Thomas, director of the Center for Strategic Technology at Texas...
...current exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings at New York City's Metropolitan Museum is, one need hardly point out, a must for almost anyone who is interested in either drawings or bodies. All the same, it is not the easiest of shows. Its predecessor, the Met's 1981 exhibition of his studies of landscape and water and plants (lent, like this one, from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle), was more open to the nonspecialist, if only because more people have mused on water currents or leaves than on the maxillary sinus...