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Andropov's and leadership
Upon Andropov's death in 1984, the aged Konstantin Chernenko took power ; after his death the following year, it became clear to the party hierarchy that younger leadership was needed.

Andropov's and was
The project was a blow to Yuri Andropov's so-called " peace offensive ".
Four days after Andropov's death, on 9 February 1984, Chernenko was elected as the party's General Secretary.
Chernenko was then elected to replace Andropov, despite concerns over his own ailing health, and against Andropov's wishes ( he stated he wanted Gorbachev to succeed him ).
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.
By the end of 1984, Chernenko could hardly leave the Central Clinical Hospital, a heavily guarded facility in west Moscow, and the Politburo was affixing a facsimile of his signature to all letters, as Chernenko had done with Andropov's when he was dying.
Andropov's rule was also marked by deterioration of relations with the United States.
' Then I saw his aide Bogolyubov and said, ' Klavdy Mikhailovich, there was a paragraph from Andropov's speech ....' He led me off to the side, and said, ' Who do you think you are, a wise guy?
Shortly before he was due to leave for the Crimea, Andropov's health severely deteriorated.
After a series of speeches, delivered by military and political leaders from the balcony of the Lenin Mausoleum, Andropov's coffin was carried to the Kremlin Wall Necropolis just behind it.
At exactly 12: 45 pm Tuesday, Andropov's coffin was lowered into the ground as foghorns blared, joining with sirens, wheezing factory whistles and rolling gunfire in a mournful cacophony.
Despite Andropov's hard-line stance in Hungary and the numerous banishments and intrigues for which he was responsible during his long tenure as head of the KGB, he has become widely regarded by many commentators as a reformer, especially in comparison with the stagnation and corruption during the later years of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev.
In 1985, a respectful 75-minute film was broadcast in which Tatyana ( not even seen in public until Andropov's funeral ) reads love poems written by her husband.
According to Andropov's biographers the anti-corruption campaigned launched by him was inspired by Shervardnadze's Georgian anti-corruption campaign.
With his deteriorating health, having a disease known as arteriosclerosis, Kirilenko was disabled from ensuing active politics or protecting himself from Andropov's attacks.
When Gorbachev was facing opposition in the Politburo shortly after Andropov's death, Ustinov told Gorbachev to " stand firm " and to " take heart ".
During the few remaining months of Andropov's life Romanov was widely seen as one of Andropov's closest collaborators and was an ardent supporter of Andropov's comprehensive program for the reform, renewal and further development of socialism in the Soviet Union and beyond, a fact which stands in sharp contrast to the picture Gorbachev and his associates were later to paint of Romanov as a means of gaining advantage in the power struggles following Andropov's death in February 1984.

Andropov's and health
The meetings of the Central Committee and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union were postponed to the last possible moment because of Andropov's health.
Andropov's health declined rapidly during the tense summer and fall of 1983, and he became the first Soviet leader to miss the anniversary celebrations of the 1917 revolution that November.

Andropov's and Konstantin
But at the meeting neither Konstantin Chernenko, Viktor Grishin, Nikolai Tikhonov, Dmitriy Ustinov nor any of the other politburo members made mention of Andropov's stated wishes.

Andropov's and Chernenko
At the Central Committee plenary session on 13 February 1984, four days after Andropov's death, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Premier, and Politburo member Nikolai Tikhonov moved that Chernenko be elected general secretary, and the Committee duly voted him in.
Chernenko, his successor, continued much of Andropov's policies and whether their policies improved the economic situation in the country is still debated amongst scholars.
Andropov died on February 9, 1984 and Chernenko was elected his replacement on February 13 but Chernenko was a compromise stopgap candidate as Gorbachev – Andropov's protege – lacked sufficient support in the Politburo.

Andropov's and had
However, although Gorbachev acted as a deputy to the general secretary throughout Andropov's illness, Gorbachev's time had not yet arrived when his patron died early in 1984.

Andropov's and personnel
The personnel changes and investigations into corruption undertaken under Andropov's tutelage came to an end.

Andropov's and Central
Changes continued however, and the Andropov appointees continued Andropov's course of introducing new blood into the Central Committee and Party apparatus.
On a Saturday preceding a Tuesday plenum of the Central Committee, Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov, came to Andropov's room at the Central Clinical Hospital in Kuntsevo to help him draft a speech.

Andropov's and .
Andropov's domestic policy leaned heavily towards restoring discipline and order to Soviet society.
At Andropov's funeral, he could barely read the eulogy.
During Yuri Andropov's tenure as General Secretary ( 1982 – 1984 ), Gorbachev became one of the Politburo's most visible and active members.
* August 25 – Samantha Smith, " Goodwill Ambassador " between the Soviet Union and the United States for writing a letter to Yuri Andropov about nuclear war, and eventually visiting the Soviet Union at Andropov's request, dies in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash.
On 8 March 1983, during Andropov's reign as General Secretary, U. S. President Ronald Reagan famously labeled the Soviet Union an " evil empire.
On 9 February 1984, Andropov's last day, the nurse came to Boris Klukov, one of his many bodyguards, and said that he did not want to eat.
Doctors ran to Andropov's room and the assistant of the security director also went there.
He came up to Andropov's room, looked at the display and observed his slowing pulse.

ability and reshape
Inductors are one of the basic components used in electronics where current and voltage change with time, due to the ability of inductors to delay and reshape alternating currents.
His desire to strive for the truth is most evident through his ability to correct his own claims and to continually reshape his thoughts on the human body.
Set several years after " The Great Uprising ", a future geological phenomenon in the Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo, people have developed a power granting them the ability to deconstruct, reshape, and crystallize matter at a molecular level using only thought and willpower.
In this form, his powers were increased to virtually godlike levels, including the ability to mass-manipulate ( his complete takeover of all the Sentinels ), create and reshape matter at will ( shown when he created his citadel, and when he created a second sun to destroy Earth ), and an apparent omniscience ( as evidenced when he easily thwarted an attempt to sneak into his citadel ).
With time and training his power further advanced as sustained application of his power, even to the extent of levitating an island miles above ground level, could continue while he sleeps, he was able to somewhat reshape mountains on the Moon and demonstrated the ability to lift a small stone in China while residing in L. A. and deposit it in Australia through a victims head just to see if he could so.
* Mister Fantastic has the ability to shift his body ( or portions of same ) into a super-malleable state, enabling him to stretch, contract, deform, expand, elongate, compress or otherwise reshape his physical form at his will.
This reinforces the power of the monastic Order of Dagon's ability to reshape reality ; even persons outside Sunnydale who were not even peripherally involved in the events of Season 5 have had their memories and awareness shifted to include Dawn as if she had always existed, rather than strictly those in Sunnydale or in contact with the Slayer at the time.

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