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...phone links continued to function sporadically, most Muscovites trying to reach an international operator were told brusquely to "please call later." Communications eventually were restored, but in rumor-rife Moscow, the event was unusual enough to prompt immediate speculation that a change of leadership, possibly involving ailing President Leonid Brezhnev, was in the works, even though there was scant evidence to support that conclusion...
...Poland, the pipeline sanctions were extended in June to include foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms and foreign companies holding licenses for U.S. technology. But instead of hurting the Soviets, the sanctions seem to be playing right into Moscow's hands. Observed the French newspaper Le Monde: "Now Mr. Brezhnev can gloat. Less than three months after all that hugging and embracing at the Versailles summit, Western solidarity is shaken to its foundations...
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...