Word: brezhnevs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line anti-Soviet address that would cast the region's problems in a stark East-West context. Kirkpatrick wrote an article last month arguing that denying aid to the Salvadoran government and the Nicaraguan insurgents "would be to make the U.S. the enforcer of [the late Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev's doctrine of irreversible Communist revolution." In another article, Casey wrote that the problems in Central America reflected the Soviet Union's strategy of using surrogates like Nicaragua to spread its influence in the Third World...
...international behavior of the Soviet Union [under Andropov] will not necessarily differ much from the behavior under Brezhnev, except that Brezhnev as a person was deeply afraid of the possibility of war. How does Andropov compare with him? My feeling is, if I may oversimplify, that Brezhnev was a Russian soul as we think of a Russian soul from having read Dostoyevsky or Pushkin, whereas Andropov is a modern computer filled with Russian software...
...equal status with the U.S. was its own reward. Its value increased manyfold when the U.S. was willing to enshrine the magic word equality in the communiques issued at summits and the prologues to SALT treaties and accords that Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter signed with Leonid Brezhnev between...
...SALT II was its sponsorship. The treaty was the fruit of three Administrations' labors. Much of its contents was the handiwork of Henry Kissinger and his colleagues. The remainder was mostly an improvement on that core. But the signature on the bottom of the last page, alongside Leonid Brezhnev's, was Jimmy Carter's. So technical an agreement
...highly developed some of cunning. A brief look at Arbatov's career only serves to reinforce this impression, for our man clearly knew how to pick--and stick with--the right people. In the early 1960s, for example, Arbatov was a confident of the late Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev. And all the way buck in 1964, he became an advisor to Yuni V. Andropov, then one of several secretaries of the Communist party's Central Committee. Today Andropov is Secretary General of the Central Committee and Arbator director of the prestigious Institute for United States and Canadian Studies...