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...come in 35 flavors, the Prime Minister daintily dipped in. "They might not be good for the teeth," she mused, "but they will be good for sugar consumption in Britain." On more substantive matters, she applauded Reagan's caution in approaching any summit, urging the President to study Brezhnev's statement carefully "both for what it adds up to and what it does not add up to," in the words of one aide...
...Administration is in a feisty mood and thinks it will win, in El Salvador as well as in Congress. William Hyland, a Soviet-affairs specialist sympathetic to the Administration, notes that Brezhnev did not even mention El Salvador in his speech last week, and predicts: "They may let it go down the tubes. It was a minor gamble for them, and it's not paying off. They will always be able to blame the defeat of the Salvadoran Communists on Yankee imperialism." Still, Bushnell had the best one-word description of the Administration's course: "Risky...
...Brezhnev proposes an "active dialogue" with...
...Leonid Brezhnev had been speaking a mere seven minutes-before live television cameras-at the opening session of the 26th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. Characteristically, the ailing, 74-year-old leader had limped to the podium, and his diction was slurred. Then the television image suddenly switched from the meeting to a studio announcer, who read the remaining 3½ hours of Brezhnev's text. The unsettling cut appeared to be an attempt to draw attention away from the Soviet leader's infirmities, but it had the opposite effect. For a time, in fact, it obscured...
...state of [superpower] relations, and the acuteness of the international problems, necessitates a dialogue, and an active dialogue, at all levels," declared Brezhnev. "We are prepared to have this dialogue." The initiative was an apparent attempt to lower the temperature of recent East-West relations, and it caught Western analysts by surprise. Secretary of State Alexander Haig said that the U.S. was "very interested" in the summit feeler, but added cautiously that "we need to study this very, very carefully...