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Logical Choice. Specialists in Washington and Europe believe the most logical choice to succeed Brezhnev would be Andrei Kirilenko. During Brezhnev's present illness, Kirilenko is presumably standing in for his chief in the Politburo. In recent years he has often filled this role when Brezhnev was sick or traveling abroad. Thus Kirilenko would make an ideal transitional figure for a few years. At 68, Kirilenko represents no real threat to the younger members of the 16-man Politburo and ten-man Secretariat of the Central Committee, who would be jockeying for power under his titular leadership...
...Exploring a compromise, Kissinger and Jackson consider allowing the President to extend the trade benefits if the Soviets would give specific assurance that they would end harassment of emigres and substantially increase levels of emigration over the high mark set in 1973. Kissinger tells Jackson that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has privately assured him that the flow of Jewish emigres will increase and harassment will diminish...
...trade bill, which Brezhnev initially hoped would grant huge dollar credits to the Soviet Union. As passed by Congress last month, it puts a paltry $300 million limit to such credits. It also makes free emigration for Soviet citizens a condition of trade concessions to the U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's public assertion in December that there was no such agreement, combined with a new crackdown on Soviet Jewish emigration (see below), suggested to some Kremlinologists that Brezhnev's authority may be under serious challenge...
...Soviet dissidents, however, his arguments are certain to enliven a debate about the nation's future. Solzhenitsyn and his circle reject the argument that truly significant change can come only from within the Communist system. Solzhenitsyn personally takes issue with a second line of thought, propounded by Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who believes that Russia's ultimate hope for freedom lies in a convergence with Western political systems...
...this we experienced as we read Academician [Andrei] Sakharov's article* and heard the international reactions to it. Our hearts beat faster as we realized that someone had broken out from the deep, untroubled, cozy drowse in which Soviet scientists pursue their scientific work. It was a liberating joy to realize that Western atomic scientists are not the only ones who feel pangs of conscience-that a conscience is awakening amongst our own scientists...