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Poet, author, former
United States Senator from Minnesota and candidate for the presidency, Eugene McCarthy now lives in Hawlin Hollow, Woodville.
however, in their analysis and in their predictions. Solovyov and Klepikova, for example, writing in the New Leader of January 23. 1984. anticipating Andropov’s death, were quite certain as to who would follow him in power.
Andropov, they wrote, had laid the foundations for continuing power. He had established his people in positions of power. His era would exist without him. He would pick his heirs. Grigbrv Romanov woukl beyVtoM.r**ONier«l Secretory of * the Party. Other Andropov fevorites would hold critical offices such as Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ministry of Defense, head of the KGB, etc. The empire would live on.
And then Andropov died and who succeeded to the seat of highpower? It was Konstantin Chernenko. Why did he win? White House Kremlinologist Richard Pipes told the then National Security adviser William Clark that he won because he had the votes in the Politburo. It was as simple as that - a matter of arithmetic.
How could this have happened? Accoixling to the New Republic’s Kremlinologist. Fenyvesi. Andropov had made no pi-e|>aration for succession. He evidently did not think he would die soon.
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