Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!keller From: keller@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Low life at the top. - (nf) Message-ID: <5745@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 22:47:22 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5745 Posted: Sat Feb 18 22:47:22 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 07:18:50 EST Lines: 22 #N:uicsl:16300044:000:830 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