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...invitation to the Olympics and presumably will have to reverse itself. Polish newspapers were printing detailed analyses of the prospects of Polish athletes in Los Angeles that had to be hastily discarded. An East German official in Switzerland explained his country's participation in the boycott in the bluntest terms. Said he: "We are politically too dependent on the Soviet Union to envision any other decision...
...efforts to revive the economy. Though he had made some headway in invigorating the party bureaucracy, he may have left behind a Politburo divided along generational lines. The late Soviet leader had kept his nation's military strong, but his countrymen now felt more threatened than ever. At their bluntest, Muscovites reflected that in death Andropov had at least spared them further months in which they would wait and wonder how long the Soviet Union could be governed by a shadow leader...
...dismal foreign policy record of Jimmy Carter, for whom Brzezinski was National Security Adviser, and suggesting that Reagan's venture into international management so far was amateurish. The Reaganites, complained former Ambassador to Moscow Malcolm Toon not long ago, "have no foreign policy at all." His was the bluntest of many voices on that issue...
Delegates from France, Britain and other countries soundly criticized the Carter Administration for holding back progress on the use of nuclear power. Franz Josef Strauss, who is challenging West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next month's national elections, was the bluntest. "Whoever fails to take advantage of nuclear energy condemns himself to social backwardness," he said. "The future belongs to those countries that push ahead with nuclear energy...
Some of Carter's bluntest phrases were directed at Moscow's repressive treatment of internal dissent. Clearly referring to the seven-year sentence recently imposed on Helsinki Human Rights Monitor Yuri Orlov, Carter declared that the Soviets' abuse of such rights had earned them "the condemnation of people everywhere who love freedom." "By their actions," Carter added, "they have demonstrated that the Soviet system cannot tolerate freely expressed ideas, notions of loyal opposition and the free movement of peoples. The Soviet Union attempts to export a totalitarian and repressive form of government, resulting in a closed society...