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...against the military regime in Poland two weeks ago, he warned that he held the Soviet Union responsible for the crisis and that "business as usual," as he put it, could not go on with the Soviets. He said he had sent a strong letter of protest to Leonid Brezhnev. Reagan's resolve quickened after he received the Soviet President's response on Christmas Day. Though the exact contents of Brezhnev's letter have not been divulged, Reagan publicly described the note as "negative" and told one aide that it offered "no encouragement...
Quite possibly, this lesson will not be lost on those who in the near future will take over from Brezhnev and Co. Soviet moderates anxious to better the lot of their people conceivably could admit some reform into the Soviet economic system, helping liberalize the society as a whole...
...successive days, scientists sent by the Vatican met directly with President Reagan, France's Francois Mitterrand, Britain's Margaret Thatcher and, extraordinarily, the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev. Carefully designed to reimpress the world's leaders with the horrific biological results of nuclear war, the mission was one more indication of the new urgency that Pope John Paul II attaches to battling the nuclear threat...
...goes for Deng & Co. as much as for any other Communists. Despite his reputation as a pragmatist and a reformer, Deng realizes as clearly as Grličkov that for a Communist, pragmatism and reform must end where genuine pluralism and power-sharing begin. On that point, Deng and Brezhnev are still comrades. Of all the buzz words in the Marxist lexicon, none is more telling than "struggle." It is Marxism, both the theory and the practice, stripped to its essence. What distinguishes the Soviet prototype of Communism is the ingenious and terrible way that the struggle to prevail against...
...been careful to discourage "Bona-partism," that is, the military's usurpation of political power. Nonetheless, the civilian leadership headed by President Leonid Brezhnev (who is, like Stalin, a Marshal) has been extraordinarily accommodating to the armed forces' voracious demands on national resources...