The World - News from Feb. 21, 1985
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Ailing Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko is expected to emerge from eight weeks of seclusion to deliver a traditional election speech Friday on television, officials in Moscow said. One official said the address will be made from within the Kremlin but that Chernenko, 73, will not speak in the Palace of the Congresses, the main auditorium there and the traditional site for such speeches. Chernenko, reportedly suffering from emphysema, has not been seen in public since Dec. 27.
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