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...Andropov remained invisible, his hand was very evident in the Kremlin's business last week. With one stroke, he strengthened his position on the ruling Politburo by increasing the number of voting members from eleven to 13, the highest count since October 1982. The two new men, presumed to be Andropov supporters, had been blocked from advancing further in their careers under Leonid Brezhnev. Andropov also promoted an old KGB comrade to candidate membership in the party council and gave greater authority to a like-minded technocrat on the Central Committee Secretariat. Andropov's address to the party...
DIED. Rod Cameron, 73, swaggering cowboy actor; after a stroke; in Gainesville, Ga. Cameron played in more than 100 western and action films over almost four decades. On television, he played Police Officer Bart Grant in the series City Detective and later starred in State Trooper...
Despite the high-level meetings, the State Department down-played the notion that some bold stroke was imminent. "The gut issues," said one official, "are not appreciably changed." But that cool appraisal understates the current, critical juncture for U.S. policy toward Central America, in particular El Salvador. Two days after Bush's ultimatum, Salvadoran extremists won worrisome victories: a rightist coalition in the legislature managed to weaken the three-year-old land-reform program, and leftist guerrillas in the field ravaged a U.S.-trained army battalion (25 dead, 45 wounded) in a ten-hour firefight. In Nicaragua, meanwhile...
...would the Soviet Union want to spend 78 million rubles (about $117 million) on a single cardiology complex? Answer: a Soviet epidemic of heart disease. As in the U.S., cardiovascular diseases are the U.S.S.R.'s No. 1 killer. In America over the past decade the death rate from stroke has fallen 37% and from heart attacks it has dropped by 25%, largely owing, many cardiologists believe, to an aggressive program for the treatment of hypertension. By contrast, the Soviet death rate from heart-related diseases more than doubled between 1960 and 1980. Among the causes, according to U.S. researchers...
When she lined up one-on-one with Kinsella for the first stroke--24:43 into the game--she brought with her a confidence that has become Taylor's trademark. The blistering shot she drove into the upper right-hand corner of the net gave Harvard a 1-0 lead and the feeling it was on its way to an easy...