Word: brezhnevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the imposition of martial law almost nine months ago, Solidarity has once more become the stuff of dreams, its organizational structure crushed and its leader, Walesa, under house arrest. While calling on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at his summer retreat on the Black Sea last week, Poland's leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, labeled the tattered remnant of the suspended trade union a "counterrevolutionary underground, whose activities are inspired and supported from the outside, mainly from the United States...
...images of these friends are etched deeper in Reagan's mind, the view of his principal adversary Leonid Brezhnev is elusive and even receding. "I had met him ten years ago. That was when he was at San Clemente. And I did write him when I was in the hospital, after my little episode. I wrote him a handwritten letter. I will admit that the diplomatic corps was shocked and was not quite sure that handwritten letters should be written. But it was delivered. I reminded him of our meeting, then I asked whether it is not governments that...
...ambition to radicalize such Third World bodies as the Organization of African Unity and the nonaligned movement. He is, therefore, pre-eminent in the demonology of the Reagan Administration. In a number of offices at the CIA, Gaddafi's picture hangs next to those of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and Cuban President Fidel Castro in a kind of unholy trinity. An agency official not long ago called Gaddafi "the first among equals, our international public enemy No. 1." The Reagan Administration blames Gaddafi for sponsoring international terrorism (he says he supports only legitimate liberation movements), and even for dispatching...
...racy Western films that are banned for the Soviet masses, and had exposed the bribes extracted by a circus director who chose which performers traveled abroad. More consequential, in April Newsweek nettled the Soviets with a decidedly premature cover story, to which Nagorski contributed, depicting Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev as a dying man who was losing political control. But Nagorski got more than a routine dressing down. Press Office Deputy Director Yuri Viktorov brusquely foreclosed all discussion: Your accreditation as the Newsweek correspondent in Moscow, he began, is being withdrawn...
...Beirut-Palestinian settlement. The Soviets, having failed to keep Syria and the P.L.O. from military defeat at the hands of Israel, have been at least temporarily pushed out of the picture, as attested by Khaddam's presence in Washington rather than Moscow. Soviet President Brezhnev last week suggested a U.N. force to separate Israeli and P.L.O. fighters in Lebanon, and a Middle East peace conference. One White House aide airily and accurately dismissed his views as "not relevant...