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...invited four of them to the White House for a seven-course dinner cooked by a Chinese chef. There were warm embraces when the meal ended. Another evening, Carter became so nostalgic that he broke out a bottle of vodka that had been given to him by Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna in 1979 and reminisced with some of his cronies about the early political years and the lost campaign. The Carters invited Vice President Walter Mondale and his wife to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom on their final night in the White House...
...survive a nuclear war? How can we as doctors influence people to prevent any further buildup of nuclear arms?" These are not the questions of an American pacifist but of Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of health and an official physician to President Leonid Brezhnev. Moreover, Chazov's view is at variance with some statements by Soviet officials implying that since fewer Soviet citizens are likely to die in an atomic holocaust than Americans, the U.S.S.R. would therefore...
Walesa himself was summoned to Warsaw by Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek, who presumably laid down the line established during Czyrek's Kremlin meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev two weeks ago. Walesa discreetly declined to reveal details of his conversation with Czyrek, claiming that it merely concerned the union leader's forthcoming trip to the Vatican. Walesa then spent five hours with Deputy Premier Andrzej Jedynak discussing proposed new labor and censorship laws, Solidarity's right of access to the news media, and the farmers' attempt to form their own union. Emerging from this second...
Alexei Kosygin, 76, pragmatic politician-engineer who, with Leonid Brezhnev, wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 and served as Premier until, in failing health, he quit his post last October...
...with Soviet troops still poised on the frontier, even the militants do not want to change the union's conciliatory course-at least just yet. At week's end, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev met with Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek in Moscow. While expressing confidence that the Polish party could solve the country's internal difficulties, the two leaders assailed "attempts of imperialist and other reactionary circles" to undermine socialist Poland. For the restive militants, it was a grim reminder of the limits of Soviet tolerance...