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...called stealth technology. Last December, influenced by Soviet moves in Africa, Viet Nam and Cambodia and the threat to Afghanistan, Carter came full circle and endorsed a sustained growth in defense spending. Later, when Soviet forces poured into Afghanistan, the President felt betrayed by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who had pledged his peaceful intentions only six months previously at their summit in Vienna...
What is making this city nervous in these waning days of the campaign is that the "votes" that may tip this election could come from Leonid Brezhnev, the Ayatullah Khomeini, Menachem Begin or assorted other parties far beyond any U.S. precincts...
...Worried about both his isolation and his vulnerability, Assad in recent months has accused Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia of backing subversives who want to overthrow his regime. On a visit to Moscow last week, he signed a 20-year Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev similar to the one that Moscow has with Iraq. The Kremlin has long sought such a treaty with Syria as a way of gaining a new foothold, and perhaps a reliable ally, in the Middle East...
...direct Soviet military intervention. But as recent weeks have shown, the more immediate threat is indigenous turmoil. Neither presidential candidate-nor anyone else, for that matter-has an answer to that problem or to the encroachment of Soviet diplomacy, such as the friendship treaty with Syria that Presidents Leonid Brezhnev and Hafez Assad signed last week...
...proposal: he would surrender the entire treasure to the Soviet Union in exchange for a group of islands off Hokkaido that the Soviets seized from Japan after World War II and have steadfastly refused to return. Promised Sasakawa, with a chuckle: "I'm ready to talk with whomever Brezhnev-san might send over to my office...