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Having headed the KGB for 15 years, Yuri Andropov has a fitting final resting place—next to Feliks Dzerzhinsky, first head of Soviet secret police. . . . Not only should Ronald Reagan have gone to Andropov’s funeral, said Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart, he should have taken all eight Democratic presidential candidates with him. “It would have been a signal,” said Hart, “that all of America wants to work for peace.” . . . How sorry is George McGovern over the death of Andropov? “It is a modern tragedy,” said McGovern, “that one of the Soviet Union’s most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the Administration of one of the most ill-informed and dangerous men ever to occupy the White House.” . . . Should George Bush have stayed in Moscow? New ruler Konstantin Chernenko doesn’t seem to be a robust 72. “He walked with the [Andropov] cortege,” wrote John Burns, Moscow bureau chief of the New York Times, “but appeared breathless after he mounted the steps to the mausoleum. He gave his speech in a reedy, quavering voice, and muffed his words at least once. Later, at graveside, he appeared to have trouble holding a brief salute as the coffin descended in the grave.”

The further he falls behind Walter Mondale in the polls, the harsher become John Glenn’s attacks on Mondale’s ties to organized labor. “We’ve got to stand up to the ideologues and the bosses,” Glenn told an Atlanta audience, “and take back the soul of our party.” . . . After mulling it over, Mondale finally came up with instances where he and organized labor part company. He said he opposed construction of B-l bomber and Clinch River breeder reactor, and “attempts to reduce standards of clean-air protection.” . . . Even with AFL-CIO’s Lane Kirkland hanging on his coattails, Mondale is pulling ahead in New Hampshire. Latest polls give him 38 to 17 per cent lead over Glenn, with Jesse Jackson a surprising third with 8 per cent. . . . With so much coverage of Democratic race no one is paying attention to fight for GOP presidential nomination. With good reason. Besides Reagan, there is 76-year-old Harold Stassen, who started running for President back in 1948. And then there’s Ben Fernandez, a California businessman who first sought GOP nomination in 1980, winning less than 25,000 of the nearly 13 million votes cast in 1980 GOP primaries. This time he hopes for better showing, but, as Congressional Quarterly says, he doesn’t really go for the jugular: He describes Reagan as one of America’s greatest Presidents. Finally there’s first-time candidate David Kelley of Tennessee. The two most controversial planks in his platform are: 1) a unilateral nuclear freeze and 2) a call to send blacks to Africa.

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Having headed the KGB for 15 years, Yuri Andropov has a fitting final resting place—next to Feliks Dzerzhinsky, first head of Soviet secret police. . . . Not only should Ronald Reagan have gone to Andropov’s funeral, said Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart, he should have taken all eight Democratic presidential candidates with him. “It would have been a signal,” said Hart, “that all of America wants to work for peace.” . . . How sorry is George McGovern over the death of Andropov? “It is a modern tragedy,” said McGovern, “that one of the Soviet Union’s most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the Administration of one of the most ill-informed and dangerous men ever to occupy the White House.” . . . Should George Bush have stayed in Moscow? New ruler Konstantin Chernenko doesn’t seem to be a robust 72. “He walked with the [Andropov] cortege,” wrote John Burns, Moscow bureau chief of the New York Times, “but appeared breathless after he mounted the steps to the mausoleum. He gave his speech in a reedy, quavering voice, and muffed his words at least once. Later, at graveside, he appeared to have trouble holding a brief salute as the coffin descended in the grave.”

The further he falls behind Walter Mondale in the polls, the harsher become John Glenn’s attacks on Mondale’s ties to organized labor. “We’ve got to stand up to the ideologues and the bosses,” Glenn told an Atlanta audience, “and take back the soul of our party.” . . . After mulling it over, Mondale finally came up with instances where he and organized labor part company. He said he opposed construction of B-l bomber and Clinch River breeder reactor, and “attempts to reduce standards of clean-air protection.” . . . Even with AFL-CIO’s Lane Kirkland hanging on his coattails, Mondale is pulling ahead in New Hampshire. Latest polls give him 38 to 17 per cent lead over Glenn, with Jesse Jackson a surprising third with 8 per cent. . . . With so much coverage of Democratic race no one is paying attention to fight for GOP presidential nomination. With good reason. Besides Reagan, there is 76-year-old Harold Stassen, who started running for President back in 1948. And then there’s Ben Fernandez, a California businessman who first sought GOP nomination in 1980, winning less than 25,000 of the nearly 13 million votes cast in 1980 GOP primaries. This time he hopes for better showing, but, as Congressional Quarterly says, he doesn’t really go for the jugular: He describes Reagan as one of America’s greatest Presidents. Finally there’s first-time candidate David Kelley of Tennessee. The two most controversial planks in his platform are: 1) a unilateral nuclear freeze and 2) a call to send blacks to Africa.