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...assistant for the Oregon Republican Committee: "If Carter can't keep tabs on his family, how can he be expected to run the country?" Mississippi Republican Chairman Mike Retzer took the analogy a step further, asking, "If the President can't control Billy, how can he control Brezhnev?" In Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Bob Hughes called the Billy episode "Watergate revisited," adding: "The idea of America's foremost beer drinker negotiating with Gaddafi or Hamilton Jordan negotiating with Panama over the Shah makes you wonder what the hell was the State Department doing...
...Germany, Japan and Canada, stayed at home to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in a boycott promulgated by Washington. Sixteen other nations registered their disapproval by displaying the Olympic flag rather than their national colors during the opening ceremonies, which were presided over by Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Lord Killanin of Ireland, who retires after the games as president of the International Olympic Committee...
Viet Nam's party boss Le Duan and Premier Pham Van Dong visited Moscow two weeks ago for a meeting with their Soviet counterparts, Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin. Le Duan said that the solidarity of the two allies had given Viet Nam "new great strength" to face its problems, many of which were caused "by collusion between U.S.-led imperialism and Chinese expansionism." Brezhnev responded by agreeing that "China and the U.S. encourage each other in almost everything when it comes to abusing the will of the peoples of Indochina...
...Frustrated by a six-year-old East-West diplomatic standoff over Afghanistan, the jittery post-Brezhnev leadership in Moscow sends ten Warsaw Pact tank divisions rumbling across the border into West Germany. Pushing back the outnumbered NATO forces, the invaders head for the French border. As the attacking army crosses the Rhine, the French President orders the use of tactical neutron bombs to protect his country's "territorial independence." In response, a Soviet-made SS-20 missile, armed with three nuclear warheads, rises from its silo in Poland and speeds toward Paris...
...size of those deterrent forces lack credibility in light of 1) the Soviets' overwhelming superiority and 2) the inability of the Europeans to agree on a truly unified defense policy. Beyond that, the independent British and French nuclear forces threaten to compromise future arms limitation talks. Soviet President Brezhnev has indicated a willingness to begin discussions with NATO on mutual reductions of European-based missiles. But he also insisted on the inclusion of British and French nukes in SALT III talks-if and when they get under way. Paris and London have given prior warning that they will...