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...with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and urged him to take steps to improve relations with the U.S. As Kennedy understood it, the Soviet boss agreed to review the cases of 18 families who have been refused permission to emigrate. Later, the Senator met with a group of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and the mother and brother of Anatoli Shcharansky, who has been sentenced to prison for his protests...
...Communist Party is all-powerful. The country has an intricate court system, and much attention is paid to what is called "socialist legality," but this is not to be confused with the Western concept of the rule of law. As the founder of Stalin's legal system, Andrei Vyshinsky, wrote in 1937: "The formal law is subordinate to the law of the Revolution." This helpful dictum enables the party to interfere selectively with the legal process, but what occurs is not called martial law. Thus, while the Soviet constitution enshrines most basic human rights, reality is quite another matter...
Screenplay by Friedrich Gorenstein and Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky...
...Russian superstition that it is bad luck to shake hands on a threshold. That is one of the many small oddities of negotiating with the Russians. Although the world's attention is periodically focused on highly publicized encounters between Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko-the next one is expected to take place in New York City in September-the real labor of negotiating an arms-control agreement with the Soviet Union takes place at largely secret meetings in Geneva. There, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent, Strobe Talbott had a rare opportunity to observe the permanent...
Throughout his pontificate a procession of world leaders visited the Vatican, including some key figures from Communist countries: Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, Rumania's President Nicolai Ceauşescu, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Of all the Pope's many diplomatic initiatives, including a long and fruitless attempt to mediate peace in VietNam and similarly frustrating efforts in Biafra, Northern Ireland and the Middle East, his Ostpolitik was the most successful. His overtures to the Communist world helped to win the church such concessions as limited freedom to teach, nominations...