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Khomeini's onetime protégé Ghotbzadeh is executed...
...parochial schools as a boy in Columbia, S.C. His father, a stonecutter from northern Italy, died when Joseph was six, and his mother supported the family as a seamstress. In 1945 Bernardin left the University of South Carolina, then entered a seminary. He returned home in 1952 as a protégé of liberal Bishop Paul Hallinan...
...paternal responsibilities too. The son of a colleague in his former life as a bank robber is now his protégé, and there is a pretty girl he has rescued from streetwalking; both must be shown how to live honorably. His aging self and reputation must also be refurbished; both are under assault from his losing streak and from an enemy who hates sharing the world with a man of Bob's quality. And out there, glimmering, is the casino, with its huge nightly take stashed in a crackable safe. It offers him a victimless crime...
Andropov's odds are enhanced by the fact that each of the other three leading contenders for Brezhnev's mantle has a major handicap. Kirilenko, who has rarely been seen in public in recent months, is believed to be ill. Chernenko, though a Brezhnev protégé, has no power base of his own. Gorbachev, who runs Soviet agriculture, lacks broad experience. Still, he is young and aggressive enough to accumulate power within the next few years as the elderly Politburo members...
Western governments were just as puzzled over who was in charge during Brezhnev's absence. Speculation that Andrei Kirilenko, 75, a longtime favorite for the succession, had lost a power struggle to Brezhnev Protégé Konstantin Chernenko, 70, was strengthened last week when Kirilenko's name was missing from an obituary for a World War II tank commander signed by other Kremlin leaders. A senior West German official gave Brezhnev "a few more months," but then warned: "When I read our information, I am always amazed at how little we know for certain about the inner...