Andropov agreed to this and the ruse continued until Boris Yeltsin disclosed the secret in 1992.

She asked him to try to convince Andropov to eat.

Klukov came up to Andropov and convinced him that he must eat.

Andropov said that " It is time they stopped ... search for the best ways of unleashing nuclear war ...

He became the third Soviet leader to die in less than three years, and, upon being informed in the middle of the night of his death, US President Ronald Reagan, who was seven months older than Chernenko and just over three years older than his predecessor Andropov, is reported to have remarked " how am I supposed to get any place with the Russians if they keep dying on me?

Andropov was encouraged to state that the Soviet Union engaged in the deception that they too were looking for KAL 007 and the black box.

After they had gone, Andropov remained alone with Kryuchkov and told him that he wished health and success to all the friends.

Tretyakov says that from 1979 the KGB wanted to prevent the United States from deploying the missiles in Western Europe and that, directed by Yuri Andropov, they distributed disinformation, based on a faked " doomsday report " by the Soviet Academy of Sciences about the effect of nuclear war on climate, to peace groups, the environmental movement and the journal AMBIO.

Andropov reported that, while the East German leadership stated that they were leaving for economic reasons, testimony from refugees indicated that the reasons were more political than material.

" Tretyakov says that from 1979 the KGB wanted to prevent the United States from deploying the missiles in Western Europe and that, directed by Yuri Andropov, they used the Soviet Peace Committee, a government organization, to organize and finance demonstrations in Europe against US bases.

With responsibility over personnel, working together with Andropov, 20 percent of the top echelon of government ministers and regional governors were replaced, often with younger men.

Vladimir Kryuchkov together with other friends visited Andropov.

He then worked for the Communist Party Central Committee for eight years, before joining the KGB in 1967 together with his patron Yuri Andropov.

* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

Andropov was elected the party's General Secretary on 12 November 1982 by a decision of the Central Committee.

Judson Mitchell claims that the Central Committee meeting which elected Andropov as General Secretary, was little more than a rubber stamp meeting.

Andropov was in a good position to take over the control of the party apparatus ; three big system hierarchs, Brezhnev, Kosygin and Suslov had all died.

With these appointments, Andropov effectively wielded the powers of the nomenklatura.

Even so, by the time he had succeeded in dominating the Central Committee, Andropov fell ill.

Changes continued however, and the Andropov appointees continued Andropov's course of introducing new blood into the Central Committee and Party apparatus.

To make matters worse for Chernenko, he did not have control over the Politburo ; both Andrei Gromyko and Dmitriy Ustinov were both very independent politically, and the Politburo still contained several leading Andropov protégés, such as Gorbachev, Vorotnikov, Solomontsev and Heydar Aliyev.

Chernenko never got complete control over the Central Committee and Party apparatus ; while Andropov never succeeded in removing the majority of Brezhnev appointees in the Central Committee, he had succeeding in dividing the Central Committee along factional lines.

Two days passed between his death and the announcement of the election of Yuri Andropov as the new General Secretary, suggesting to many outsiders that a power struggle had occurred in the Kremlin.

Once in power, however, Andropov wasted no time in promoting his supporters.

In tandem with such economic experiments, Andropov launched an anti-corruption drive that reached high into the government and party ranks.

In foreign affairs, Andropov continued Brezhnev's policies.

At this point, Western experts believed that Andropov was grooming Gorbachev as his successor.

At 71, Konstantin Chernenko was in poor health, suffering from emphysema, and unable to play an active role in policy making when he was chosen, after lengthy discussion, to succeed Andropov.

* 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

* 1984 – Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician ( b. 1914 )

A Parade of Mirrors and Reflections, a novella by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, centers on the cloning of deceased Soviet premier Yuri Andropov.

In 1970, KGB director Yuri Andropov authorized an operation to destroy the remains.

* 1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U. S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, there was speculation the position of General Secretary would fall to Chernenko, however he was unable to rally enough popular support for his candidacy within the Party, and the posting fell to former KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

Yuri Andropov died in February 1984, after just 15 months in office.

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

Although, Prince Mstilav defeated the royal armies, but finally he agreed to cede the government of the principality to the Hungarian prince.

The unrest ended when the soldiers were finally paid their wages by France and the President agreed not to start legal proceedings against the soldiers.

* Several models of participation are possible: firstly, a model in which the employees form part of the supervisory board or of the administrative board, as the case may be ; secondly, a model in which the employees are represented by a separate body ; and finally, other models to be agreed between the management or administrative boards of the founder companies and the employees or their representatives in those companies, the level of information and consultation being the same as in the case of the second model.

In 1989, after fifteen years of no progress, the Ghana-Côte d ' Ivoire border redemarcation commission finally agreed on the definition of the 640-kilometer border between the two countries.

" Greenberg did considerable soul-searching, and discussed the matter with his rabbi ; finally he relented and agreed to play on Rosh Hashanah, but stuck with his decision not to play on Yom Kippur.

Pei finally agreed that a reconstruction project was not only possible, but necessary for the future of the museum.

The idea was initially opposed by Largo Caballero, but after the first setbacks of the war, he changed his mind, and finally agreed to the operation on 22 October.

In July, following the Allied landings in France and the huge Soviet advances in Belarus, Hitler finally agreed to grant both of them increased powers.

They finally agreed to settle the infringement in 1796.

John's military position was weak and he agreed to a truce ; in early 1194 the king finally returned to England, and John's remaining forces surrendered.

Raymond and Guy finally agreed to attack Saladin at Tiberias, but could not agree on a plan ; Raymond thought a pitched battle should be avoided, but Guy probably remembered the criticism he faced for avoiding battle in 1183, and it was decided to march out against Saladin directly.

In 1983, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With Philip threatening military action unless the pope complied with his wishes, Pope Clement finally agreed to disband the Order, citing the public scandal that had been generated by the confessions.

After several peace accords and declining military power, Taylor finally agreed to the formation of a five-man transitional government.

It was not until he was nearly 60 that St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941.

In 1988, Morocco and the Polisario Front finally agreed on a United Nations ( UN ) peace plan, and a cease-fire and settlement plan went into effect in 1991.

In 729, Eutychius finally managed to bring about an alliance with the Lombard king, Liutprand, and both agreed to help the other deal with their rebellious subjects.

The supervisory board of Porsche finally agreed to a number of arrangements whereby the Qatar Investment Authority would inject a large amount of capital, and Porsche would be merged with Volkswagen Group.

Philip pushed the case further when King Béla III of Hungary asked for the widow's hand in marriage, and thus her dowry had to be returned, to which Henry finally agreed.

In August 1939, after another failure of attempts to establish a counter-Nazism alliance with Britain and France, and after Western powers had engaged in the policy of Appeasement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet government finally agreed to establish peaceful relations by concluding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, pledging non-aggression between the two countries and dividing their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe.

He remained there until Tancred finally agreed to sign a treaty on 4 March 1191.

Clarke and Hamilton pleaded the French scholars ' case and Hutchinson finally agreed that items such as natural history specimens would be the scholars ' private property.

Before a statute becomes law in some countries, it must be agreed upon by the highest executive in the government, and finally published as part of a code.

The Swedish and Norwegian boundaries were finally agreed and marked out in 1751.

It was finally agreed that Arslan's daughter would be sent away for a year and if Nur al-Din failed to comply, Saladin would move to abandon his support for him.

Moore finally agreed, giving the character ocular implants that were never explained in the film, beyond showing they were artificial.