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Show Yuri Andropov Ex-KG- Chief, 68, to Lead Soviet Union B By Marc Rosenwasser the gaunt, bespectacled Associated Press Writer MOSCOW Former KGB boss Yuri V. Andropov took command of the Communist Party Friday and declared that only the invincible might of the Soviet armed forces" can preserve peace. The Soviet defense minister gave Andropov a quick signal of support. Andropov led the Kremlin hierarchy in paying respects to Leonid I. Brezhnev, whose body lay in state in a building in downtown Moscow. After the leaders left, tens of thousands of Soviets began snaking past the casket for a final look at Brezhnev before the funeral, set for noon (2 a m. MST) flag-drape- d Monday. We know full well that the imperialists will never meet ones pleas for peace. It can be upheld only resting upon the invincible might of the Soviet armed forces, Most Liberal Choice? Stockman Opposes T ax Plan Fights Lewis Idea For Gas Tax Hike Andropov told the Central Committee, w hich elected him in a unanimous vote Friday morning. Led Secret Police Andropov, who for 15 years led the Soviet secret police in crushing dissent and collecting intelligence information from abroad, was chosen the partys new leader only two days after Brezhnev suffered a fatal heart attack and little more than 24 hours after Brezhnevs death was announced. Andropov Thursday was named head of the committee arranging Brezhnevs funeral in Red Square The unusual speed with which the party acted seemed designed to and the assure the Soviet public of continuity, stability and world unity in the Kremlin. One expression of support for the new leadership came from Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov, who staff: The armed forces of the U.S.S.R. are consolidating even closer around the Communist Party and its Leninist Central Committee." The nomination of Andropov for the top job by Konstantin U. Chernenko also appeared to be an effort to demonstrate unity. CherBrezhnev aide, nenko, a long-timwas widely seen as Andropov's leading rival for the post. told the general e Presidential Candidates Speculation was that either Chernenko or Viktor V. Grishin, the Moscow party chief, would be named president. Brezhnev was both party chief and president. The post had been largely ceremonial until Brezhnev became president in 1977 and turned it into a powerful any case, the current Politburo is an elderly group, with an average age of 69.5. Andropov, at 68, is the oldest man to assume the post as Brezhnev was 58 party leader when he took control of the partv in continuity, rather than change. "It is our prime duty to translate consistently into life the domestic and foreign policy course of our party and the Soviet state, a course which was worked out under the leadership of Leonid llyn-Brezhnev. This will he our best tribute to the bright memory of the leader who is no longer with us," Andropov said. As Andropov spoke at Central Committee headquarters near Red Square, thousands of Sov iet citizens converged on the House of Unions, near the Bolshoi Theater, to view 1964. is The selection of the new president expected at a meeting of the leadership of the Supreme Soviet, the national Parliament. The next scheduled sitting of the body is Nov. 23, but there were rumors that the meeting might be held this weekend. Though Andropov pledged to continue Brezhnevs domestic and foreign policies, Western experts noted that his speech to the Central Committee failed to mention either condetente or disarmament cepts which Brezhnev often men- position. tioned. If the new leadership divides up Brezhnevs jobs, it could usher in a period of collective leadership. In Brezhnev Eulogy speech was primarily a eulogy to Brezhnev and pointed to Brezhnevs body. Soviet soldiers and policemen irtuall.v sealed off central Moscow before the v iewing period, and no one could approach the building without a pass. An elderly veteran of World War II approached a Western correspondent leaving the hall where the body See Page 2, Column 3 v The xw VV'! 'W a. I"r- - - s - - WASHINGTON White AP) House Budget Director David A. Stockman, who lobbied for tax increases earlier this year, now is trying to dissuade President Reagan from backing higher gasoline taxes to finance a highway reconstruction program. Stockmans opposition to the proposal pits him against Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, who has been promoting the idea for a year. Although he did not want his name used, a Stockman aide willingly outlined the budget directors reasons for opposing the plan. jobs-creatin- g Only One Opposed Stockman, who has had considerable influence on economic policy in the Reagan administration, is the only top Cabinet official known to be actively opposed to the Lewis plan. The two men argued their cases before the president earlier this week. Reagan said at a nationally televised news conference Thursday night that he was giving deep thought to the plan but had not made up his mind. However, some administration officials have said the president seems to be leaning in favor of it. Lewis wants to double the federal tax on gasoline, from 4 cents to 8 cents a gallon and increase levies on heavy trucks. The money would be used to repair roads, bridges and other transportation systems. We have a tremendous deterioration in the infrastructure of both bridges and highways, Lewis said in a recent speech. We somehow have to come up with a user fee concept that provides the wherewithal to see that these systems are put back in condition. Rejected Earlier Reagan rejected the plan last spring, but told Lew is to resubmit it this fall. The proposal now has a politically attractive benefit of creating jobs, some 320.000 of them, according to Department estiTransportation mates. That prospect is appealing to congressional Republicans and Democrats, who are e'amoring for See Page 3, Column I Associated Press Ldserpnous Tens of thousands of Soviet citizens wait in mile long lines through the heart of Moscow David Adamson Daily Telegraph, London The government LONDON spokesman's office in Warsaw con- firmed Friday night that the order releasing Lech Walesa, Salidaritys leader, from detention had been carried out. There were rumors that he was already in Warsaw, but his wife, Danuta, said she thought he would go first to Czestochowa to give thanks for his release before the Shrine of the Black Madonna. He is expected home in Cdansk by Sunday. An Interior Ministry official said. "We don't know where he is going, nor does it interest us. Walesa is a free man and a free man does as he pleases." New s of his release was swamped Late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev lies in state on bier in House of Unions just off Red Square. flower-covere- d Soviets Pay Last Respects to Brezhnev MOSCOW (AP) Police sealed off central Moscow Friday afternoon while Kremlin leaders paid their final respects at the casket of President Leonid I. Brezhnev in a from Red huge hall a half-mil- e Square. Tens of thousands of Soviet citizens, warmly dressed against a cold, gray day, then walked past a mile-lon- g line of soldiers and police into the House of Unions on the first of three days the open casket w ill be on display. Some mourners clutched red carnations or white chrysanthemums. Brezhnev, who died Wednesday after 18 years in power, will be buried Monday in the place of highest honor at Red Square, with many government leaders from East and West in attendance at the ceremony. Red Soviet flags bordered in black hung outside the columned, pastel green and white union building Friday. No one without a special pass was permitted near it during the official ceremony. Police blocked off subway stations arouhd the Red Square area to prevent unauthorized pedestrians from getting close to the hall for the 1 p.m. visit of leaders. More than 300 members of the Lech Walesa Release Confirmed in Warsaw By for a chance to pay their last respects to the late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev. by commentaries and obituaries of Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev, but such press reaction as there was was hopeful. We have to believe that his intentions are good and there will not be any playing around anymore, said the United Peasants Party newspaper, Dziennik Ludowy. Walesas release is being connected with the lifting of martial law, a normalization of relations with the West and the lifting of sanctions, and the Pope's visit next year. The Polish representative at the Madrid conference on European security. Wlodzimierz Konarski. predicted that martial law would be ended before Christmas. He expected Walesa to meet Polish leader Gen Wojiech Jaruz.elski. Communist Party Central Committee vvere the first to pay their respects. They converged shortly after holding an emergency meeting at party headquarters a mile away to ratify former KGB chief Yuri V. Andropov to succeed Brezhnev as head of the Soviet Communist Party. Brezhnevs widow, Viktoria, seldom seen in public, wept silently and gazed at the casket, which lay on a bier banked with red and white flowers under chandeliers draped in black bunting. Three flags were ranked at the head of the bier and Brezhnev's dozens of ribboned medals, pinned on red satin, were displayed at the foot. Mrs. Brezhnev sat with her daughter Galina about 20 feet from the casket along with about 40 other family members. Both women wore black suits. Brezhnev's son, Yuri, could not be seen with the family in television film or during a visit by Western correspondents. Yuri Brezhnev, 49, is a first deputy foreign trade minister. Galina, who is in her 40s, is married to Yuri M. Churbanov, first deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Her first husband was an animal trainer at the Moscow Circus and her second was an economist. Andropov, 68, led other members of the ruling Politburo who stood in a line facing the casket. Dressed in dark suits with red and black Bieber Picked As armbands, the elderly leaders stared somberly at the casket for about one minute. Replacement Then the gaunt, white-haire- d Andropov walked over to Mrs. Brezhnev and took her hands. She raised her black veil to receive kisses on both cheeks, and Andropov moved a step to the right to kiss Galina. UnDEARBORN, Mich. (AP) ited Auto Workers union Vice Presi- dent Owen Bieber was elected Friday to succeed retiring President Douglas A. Fraser Nine other full members of the ruling Politburo followed in offering condolences 2nd kisses to both women. leader of the - HOUSTON The second of two commercial communications satellites was launched successfully from the space shuttle Columbia Friday as the orbiting space freighcrew continued ter and its four-ma- n an unblemished flight. We are two for two. We deliver! astronaut Joe Allen told mission control here after the $30 million Canadian satelfrom was spring-lifte- d lite Anik-Columbias cargo bay in a perfect repeat of Thursdays launch of an American twin, named SBS-II- I by its owner, Satellite Business Systems of McLean, Va. After the launch, orbiting engines drove Columbia up 10 miles and away from the Canadian satellite. From a safe distance of 18 miles, the big ships bottom surface of heavy thermal tiles was turned in the direction of Anik-C- . Then, 45 minutes after it lifted from the cargo bay, a rocket motor attached to the satellite fired for 83 seconds, boosting the high point of its orbit to 22,300 miles above Earth. In Circular Orbit 3l'2-to- television and teleconference capacities of both SBS and Telesat Canada of Ottawa, owner of Anik-C- . For jubilant members of the shuttle team of the National C Later, using smaller engines, will be and SBS-II- I both Anik-placed in a circular orbit above the equator. They both are expected to be operating by early next year, vastly increasing the telephone. Andrei P. Kirilenko, who disappeared from the Politburo lineup last week shortly before the annual Revolution Day parade on Red Square, reappeared at the ceremony, witnesses said. . a Bieber). Fraser said at a news on I) 5 confere- nce. Fraser, who has reached the union's mandatory Aeronautics and Space Administration, and for the space agency itself, the twin launches, made on the shuttles first operational mission, served as confirmation that America now has a workable space transportation system for the rest of the century. Returns to Normal Salt Lake City and vicinity Partly cloudy but clearing by night Highs near 5o Iai-.- s in 30s Details unanimous ballot (for As soon as Anik was out of the cargo bay, and away from NASA responsibility, life aboard Columbia returned to normal. The as- Today's Forecast s t union. "We had a spirited contest . . and the third ballot was .After only four test flights, the most complex flying machine ever devised and built, a space truck that had raised the hackles of critics in Congress and elsewhere and the enormduring the years of development, ous expense Columbia on this flight was proving itself. n, as third-larges- Columbia Orbits Second Satellite, Continues Its Unblemished Flight By Alton Slagle New York Daily News Frasers tronauts mission commander Vance Brand, pilot Robert Over-mve- r and mission specialists Allen and William Lenoir finished their first full day in space with routine spacecraft activities and were retiring early, at 5:20 p.m. They are and thus getting up going to bed earlier each day in order to be ready for an early morning landing Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. They did express delight when told by mission control that Anik-Cengine had fired correctly s retirement age of 65 and will step down at the union's convention in Dallas in May, would not say what the votes were on the first two secret ballots by the executive board. New s Conference "We have represented the membership well in the past, and will represent it well in the days said Bieber, head of the ahead, unions General Motors Corp. department, at the news conference announcing his nomination. Bieber said he didn't think his selection as the new UAW leader would lead to any considerable change in philosophy at the union. Challengers to the Bieber for the top spot were Raymond Majerus, 58, secretary-treasureand Donald Eplilin. 57. vice president in charge of the UAW's Ford Motor Co. department. Major Contender Majerus had been viewed as a major contender for the spot, but at the news conference after ttx vote, he said he now "totally and completely list in support of Owen Bieber." "This is more like a team picking a captain, we're all on the team, we'll go forward, Ephlin said at the new s conference. The choice came after a meeting of the executive board r. four-hou- or r. |