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...control of the faltering government. Moscow, for its part, seemed to be taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Polish liberalizations that it had tried, and failed, to discourage. After sending Kania a terse congratulatory telegram upon his reelection, omitting the customary expression of confidence, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled somewhat warmer greetings to Warsaw's leaders as the Poles celebrated their national day last week. The message declared the Polish party "undoubtedly capable of rallying all the working people and stirring them to a resolute rebuff to anarchy and counterrevolution...
Such a possibility was enhanced, however slightly, by President Leonid Brezhnev, when he passed up a chance to escalate the war of words in a speech last week to the summer session of the Supreme Soviet. He mentioned the U.S. only once, charging that it was evading talks on arms limitation and was bent instead on "an arms race unprecedented in scale." Under the circumstances, that was mild rhetoric...
...camera crew had arrived in Plains, Ga. "The reason given," says Stringer, "was that his advisers decided this was an 'inappropriate forum.' " Cronkite found the Soviets so uninformative that he was reduced to interviewing Alexander Bovin, a journalist who is said to be a speechwriter for Leonid Brezhnev, and exploring Moscow's motives by taping a long bull session with Western correspondents...
...wish to assure you, dear comrades, that, in these difficult days, the [Soviet] Central Committee, all Soviet Communists and the entire Soviet nation are in solidarity with your struggle. Our point of view has been expressed with precision in the statement of Comrade L. Brezhnev at the Soviet Party's 26th Congress: "We shall not let socialist Poland be harmed, and we shall not abandon a fraternal country in distress...
...Socialists demand full employment, a 35-hour work week and a guaranteed annual minimum wage of $9,434; the group would also curb "militarism" by creating soldiers' unions, free elections of officers and mandatory retirement of all generals currently in service. Notes Antimilitarist Coates: "Real Communism would make Brezhnev choke...