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...soap opera. What is Assad's real motive in his friendship with Gaddafi? Can Saddam Hussein pull enough strings to promote his own desires for power? What is the true relationship between King Hussein and the P.L.O.? Was there any hanky-panky at the last office party between Brezhnev and Assad...
...Would you welcome an early meeting with Brezhnev...
Ronald Reagan openly campaigned against the place. The President may find temporary shelter in the roomy house on Pennsylvania Avenue, but when he looks toward green Lafayette Square and creamy St. John's Church, he will not see his home town. One cannot imagine Leonid Brezhnev or Margaret Thatcher mentioning Moscow or London and meaning anything but a place. But when the President says "Washington," he means a force, perhaps his nemesis. What is this city that even Presidents cannot handle...
Kosygin's replacement by a man only a year younger once again dramatized the aging fragility of the Soviet leadership. Although he has appeared robust and vigorous in his recent public appearances, Brezhnev is 73 and suffers from a host of ailments, reportedly including cancer of the jaw and heart disease. The average age of the inner circle of the ruling 15-man Politburo is 69. Most Kremlinologists agreed that the Kosygin move did not presage any major shake-up or policy shift. If anything, it was expected to enhance Brezhnev's own already dominant power. A master...
...Tikhonov, Brezhnev has acquired the nearest thing to a tried and tested yes man. Tall, square-faced and self-effacing, the veteran technocrat has little foreign and defense policy experience; he has been known as a Brezhnev protegé ever since the two studied metallurgical engineering at neighboring technical institutes in the Ukraine in the 1930s. He became deputy chairman of GOSPLAN, the state planning committee, in 1963, a Deputy Premier in 1965 and a full member of the Politburo last November. By then, as First Deputy Premier, he had already become Kosygin's virtually full-time standin...