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...novel were so widespread in 1929 that Pravda threatened to prosecute the "malicious slanderers." When Stalin later declared Sholokhov to be "the great writer of our tune," any discussion of the novel's true authorship became extremely dangerous. But the controversy would not die. In 1967 Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky publicly recited an unpublished poem in Moscow that clearly alluded to Sholokhov...
...accuracy, the Government has been using psychiatric profiles as a tool ever since. Though Ellsberg was the first U.S. civilian to get the treatment, intelligence experts regularly do analyses of world leaders, including Chairman Mao, Indira Gandhi, Archbishop Makarios, as well as Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko and Military Theorist A.A. Sidorenko. Says one official: "Everything a person has written, what he reads, who influences him, his sex life, ailments and prognosis-everything goes into the making of a profile...
...conducted with a kind of harrowing frankness that Kissinger said would have been inconceivable at the first Nixon-Brezhnev summit in 1972 and, indeed, would have been judged to violate American intelligence restrictions. For 2½ hours, Nixon and Brezhnev met alone. Then Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko joined them for two more hours...
...rain, the Moscow summer finally arrived with Nixon Thursday afternoon, and warm, 82° sunshine sparkled off the presidential plane as it rolled up the runway at Vmukovo Airport. A huge banner said WELCOME PRESIDENT NIXON in English. Together with Premier Aleksei Kosygin, President Nikolai Podgorny and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Brezhnev himself was there to voice it, a considerable honor since he had never before appeared at the airport for a Western visitor, not even Charles de Gaulle or Willy Brandt. "It was a helluva plus," said one Nixon aide of Brezhnev's airport greeting...
...side of the room, the Americans on the other, and Brezhnev took Nixon first down the Russian side and then down the American. Kissinger stood at the end, and when the two leaders reached him, Nixon said: "He's much more flexible than [Defense Minister Andrei] Grechko." Replied Brezhnev: "Let's wait and see. Results will show." At that, Nixon stood back from Kissinger and reversed himself: "He's very tough." Brezhnev also stepped back a few paces and nodded his head...