The World - News from March 8, 1985
The Soviet Union’s ruling Politburo approved instructions for the Soviet negotiators at the nuclear arms control talks with the United States opening Tuesday in Geneva, Tass reported. “The Soviet side will act energetically and constructively, proceeding from the principle of equality and equal security,” the news agency said in its report on the Politburo’s regular weekly meeting. Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko usually chairs such meetings, but Tass did not mention him. Save for two brief TV appearances, Chernenko has been out of sight, apparently ill, since Dec. 27.
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