keller@uicsl.UUCP (02/19/84)
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uicsl!keller Feb 18 16:38:00 1984
>From a BusinessWeek editorial (Feb. 27, 1984) on Andropov's funeral:
"Flattery tends to be standard fare at state funerals, but
only a sharp knife indeed could have cut through the fog of hypocrisy
that covered Red Square. Praise from leaders of East bloc and Third World
nations was especially, and predictably, unrestrained. The Eastern heads
of state stood before the world as little more than Soviet stooges, and
as for those Third World statesmen who singled out Andropov's economic
accomplishments for special admiration, either their intelligence or their
sincerity are seriously deficient."
And some people called for Reagan to attend this orgy of supplication
in the hope that the new power would grant us an audience in Geneva.
Watch for the upcoming Masterpiece Theater special "Andropov: Ace of the
KGB."
-Shaun