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...human aspirations" - the State Department publicly criticized two Communist countries for their treatment of dissident citizens. First, Czechoslovakia was taken to task for harassing dissidents. The next day, in response to a question by a newsman, State issued a statement rapping Moscow for mistreatment of disaffected Nuclear Scientist Andrei Sakharov. It was the kind of criticism of internal Communist affairs generally avoided by Henry Kissinger...
...State took the Czechs to task for harassing many of some 300 Czechoslovak intellectuals who had signed a petition called Charter 77 demanding various domestic reforms. Next day, there was another State blast on human rights, this time aimed at the Soviet Union and concerning its leading resident dissident, Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize...
Even as the Carter Administration was scolding the Kremlin for its mistreatment of Andrei Sakharov, the President and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev moved vigorously to resume the long-interrupted East-West dialogue on arms control. It was almost as if a referee had blown a whistle after a lengthy timeout; the diplomatic ball had suddenly bounced into play...
...Novorossisk plant mainly supplies the sunny Black Sea resort area, but other plants are coming in the Crimea, Moscow, Leningrad and Tallinn. Pepsi is promoted as a health-giving tonic-an ideal way, as Novorossisk Plant Manager Andrei Oganov puts it, "to quench the thirst, invigorate the body and raise the tone." The chief problem the Russians have had with it is a low rate of bottle returns: despite a 120 deposit included in the 540 price, souvenir-minded Russians have been hanging on to two of every five bottles sold...
Brezhnev's departure from power could set off a struggle for succession, since there is no designated heir. The closest thing to a favorite has been Andrei Kirilenko, a colorless functionary who sometimes stands in for Brezhnev when he is on vacation. But Kirilenko is also...