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...Gulf region to the West has long been implicit in American policy; the Soviets did not need presidential envoy Clark Clifford in New Delhi or Carter in Washington to say so. The new, "hawkish" leaders in the Kremlin (if indeed they have taken over from the doddering Brezhnev) must realize that further military moves in the area would court a global conflict. Even Henry Kissinger recognizes that the Soviets, no matter how devious they are, will hesitate before taking any new military action, and more likely will follow their armed offensive with a "peace offensive" to repair their image...
...Chinese backing. China represents one of the two strategic obsessions of the Soviet Union; the other is upheaval in Eastern Europe. Many sophisticated Russians believe war with their largest and most unfriendly neighbor is inevitable. The fear of China was one of the main incentives for Leonid Brezhnev to embark upon a policy of détente with the West. He did not want to wage cold wars-with the ever-present threat of hot ones-on two fronts. One reason why détente has all but failed is that the Soviets believe the Carter Administration is rushing headlong...
President Bok and four other university presidents sent a cable of protest Thursday afternoon to Soviet Premier Leonid I. Brezhnev, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin, and Anatoly P. Alexandrov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences...
There are some good signs. Carter reads the hot-line messages from Leonid Brezhnev with knitted brows. Question marks. He handles the few pages as if they were radioactive. They could be. He says each critical word as if destiny were buried in its syllables. That could be too. He talks about power and the possibility of war as he used to talk Government reorganization and revenue sharing. His mind probes beyond the merely visible. If the Soviet moves in Afghanistan are unopposed, that confirms to the men in the Politburo that they can invade the soft spots...
...newly elected and infuriating Indira Gandhi. The President's international phoning is now done with the same casualness he uses for Iowa's caucus votes. His list includes Pakistan's Zia, Germany's Schmidt, Egypt's Sadat, Britain's Thatcher. He still writes Brezhnev regular personal letters...