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...affairs since the outbreak of labor unrest eight months ago. The communique said that the Soviets expected their Polish comrades "to reverse the course of events and liquidate the perils looming over the socialist gains of the nation." The participants in the minisummit, which was presided over by Leonid Brezhnev and attended by five Soviet Politburo members, also declared the "defense" of socialism to be "a matter not only for every single state but for the entire socialist community as well...
...those two statements was a clear message: unless Poland's Communist leaders moved quickly to restore the party's control and to resist further concessions to the workers, their Soviet-bloc allies reserved the right to go in under the Brezhnev Doctrine and do it for them...
When Leonid Brezhnev summoned his Polish comrades to Moscow last week he must have been feeling especially sure of himself; the 26th Soviet Communist Party congress had just finished showering him with glory. Through session after session, Brezhnev had listened impassively to a stream of eulogies on his wisdom, his leadership, his "tireless" struggles for peace. Then after eight days it was over, and Brezhnev stepped to the podium last week to bring the congress to a close. Looking relatively vigorous and speaking forcefully, though with his usual slur, the 74-year-old leader announced his election as party chief...
...Brezhnev himself produced the only surprise at the congress in his keynote speech. His offer of "an active dialogue" with the U.S. and a resumption of the SALT process amounted to a change in tone, if not a change of policy As most Kremlinologists saw it, the lack of strident anti-American diatribe demonstrated that Moscow is not anxious to provoke an immediate confrontation with the assertive new U.S. Administration. The Soviets insisted last week that Brezhnev s gesture was genuine. "He offered concrete, practical measures," a Central Committee official told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce W. Nelan "We have...
...there any hint about Brezhnev's eventual successor. The cult of personality that surrounds the ailing leader may have reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...