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Paul M. Doty '50, an arms control expert and member of the Biochemistry Department, said that the Soviet scientists and officials he met with earlier this month had predicted few advances in nuclear arms reduction until the Moscow government chooses a successor for ailing Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev...
Moscow, which has been frozen out of the Middle East by its failure to give any effective support to its Syrian, Iraqi and P.L.O. allies, would certainly jump at any invitation. At a Kremlin dinner last week for President Ali Nasser Mohammed of South Yemen, Brezhnev denounced Reagan's plan as "basically vicious" and put forward one of his own that paralleled the Fez resolutions. Israelis, Arabs and Americans all appraised it, accurately, as containing little...
...does break new ground is in attributing a precise motive to Moscow. Citing unnamed Vatican sources, Kalb reports that the Pope sent a special envoy to the Kremlin in August 1980, while Poland was in the grip of a nationwide strike. The envoy allegedly gave Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev a handwritten letter from the Pope, who threatened to "lay down the crown of St. Peter" and return home to join the resistance if the Soviets moved against Poland. After a series of diplomatic shuttles between Moscow, Warsaw and Rome, says NBC, the papal envoy persuaded the Soviets to acquiesce...
Intriguing though it is, NBC's scenario falls far short of hard proof. A Vatican spokesman denied knowledge of any papal letter to Brezhnev or secret diplomatic mission to Moscow. Although U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato last week accused CIA officials of dismissing information he gave them in October 1981 that the Kremlin was involved in the plot to kill the Pope, U.S. intelligence officials told TIME they had no evidence that the Pope was involved in either Solidarity's birth or funding...
...with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest veers toward an ecumenical humanism; the Marxist sighs for a materialistic Utopia. They agree only about the culture that confronts them. Says Quixote: "It's an absurd world or we wouldn't be here together...