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Assessing the Afghan invasion, Edinburgh's Erickson says, "If Brezhnev had asked the general staff back in 1973: 'Can you carry off such a campaign?' the answer would have been no. Now the general staff says, 'We can.' This is a development that the Western alliance can ignore only at its peril...
...Soviet-American relations is over. Since Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan in December, Washington's policy toward Moscow has been almost exclusively punitive: a boycott of the Olympics, a partial embargo on grain sales, tightened restrictions on high-technology exports. The SALT II treaty that Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed a year ago this week may die on the Senate shelf. After more than a month in office, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has yet to meet with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Muskie did meet on May 16 with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Vienna, but their exchange consisted...
...ought to be rejected until and unless the Soviet Union shows some sign of agreeing with the U.S. on a joint code of superpower conduct that forbids, or at least inhibits, naked aggression and the exploitation of regional instability. At their summit meeting in Moscow in 1972, Nixon and Brezhnev actually tried to formulate such a code, but it was hopelessly vague and thus catered to the Soviets' love of lofty-sounding principles and giant loopholes. The key phrase in the twelve-point declaration of principles they signed: "Both sides recognize that efforts [by one] to obtain unilateral advantage...
...assassin's bullet. There is a lingering, but unproven, suspicion that Joseph Stalin was murdered. Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev were ignominiously ousted from office. What fate is in store for the collective leadership now ruling the U.S.S.R.? Sovietologists agree that the oldsters clustered around President Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin will merely succumb to the inexorable logic of the actuarial tables. In the 16 years of Brezhnev's rule the average age of the Politburo has crept forward until it stands this year at 70, thus making the U.S.S.R. one of the oldest gerontocracies in the world...
...also, of course, one of the most experienced. At a time when Jimmy Carter was a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy (1943-46), virtually every man in the 14-man Politburo was a member of the power elite. Brezhnev was a major general. Andrei Gromyko was Ambassador to the U.S. Today, however, none of these tough, hard-working old leaders is exceptionally robust. Brezhnev, at 73, suffers from several illnesses, including arteriosclerosis. Alexei Kosygin, 76, has had two heart attacks. Dmitri Ustinov, 71, is currently ailing. "When Brezhnev dies the rest of the Politburo will be gone with...