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...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brusquely foreclosed all discussion: Your accreditation as the Newsweek correspondent in Moscow, he began, is being withdrawn...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...
Moscow did issue one pointed reminder last week that it thought it still had a major role to play in the Middle East problem, when Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev put Washington on notice that any decision to send U.S. troops to Lebanon, however briefly, would force the Soviet Union to "build its policy with due consideration of this fact." But as Washington quickly noted, last week's message was not nearly as strong as the Soviet Union's support for the Arabs in 1973 during the October War. At that time, Moscow airlifted military supplies to Syria...
Reagan's high-stakes offer could spur resolution of the dangerous deadlock in Beirut. But there were rumblings at home and abroad last week that the risks might exceed the potential rewards. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sent a letter to Reagan stating that if the U.S. sent its Marines to Lebanon, the U.S.S.R. might counter with moves of its own in the region. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee called President Reagan to express his concern about the plan. Even within the Administration there were qualms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has consistently opposed committing U.S. troops abroad...
...Administration was not seriously concerned about the Soviet reaction. "It didn't bother us one bit," said an Administration official. Brezhnev's letter, delivered by Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to the State Department, was interpreted as a mild warning that Moscow might respond to any deployment of U.S. troops in Lebanon by sending a battalion of its own to Syria; both of these actions would violate an unwritten understanding between the superpowers, dating from 1973, not to send any forces into the Middle East. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said that Reagan had received the Soviet leader...