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...SALT II is essential to U.S. security. President Carter just a few months ago told treaty opponents he wanted SALT II passed because it was in the U.S. national interest, not a gift to the Soviets. Brezhnev too has been running into attacks from hardliners who don't want arms control. Those who say SALT II will enshrine Soviet superiority fail to say how we will be better off if the treaty is shelved. The arms race will escalate, and the Soviet lead will in all probability widen further. SALT II reigns in the Soviets, and since...
...mean, is it the Communist world strategy or something? I'm sure Brezhnev's just shaking in his boots now that the Russians will win all the gold medals in Moscow. Jesus...
...explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against CIA and Zionist agents?two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the envoy that "Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said that the Soviets would come to grief if they remained in Afghanistan...
...prevent the Soviets from acting aggressively to maintain what they regard as their national interests. Other hard-liners within the Administration argue that the U.S.S.R. has repeatedly violated detente's main charter, the "Basic Principles of Relations" between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at their Moscow summit in May of 1972. This communique stated that the two superpowers "will always exercise restraint in their mutual relations" and that "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense...
...making such decisions in Moscow? Because Brezhnev has been such a staunch supporter of the SALT treaty that he signed with Carter in Vienna last June, there was some ominous speculation that the ailing Soviet leader might now be acting under pressure from younger and more aggressive officials, or even that the long anticipated process of changing Soviet leadership might already be 5 under way. Most Soviet experts discounted such speculation, however. Said one West German Foreign Ministry analyst: "There is no evidence to indicate that Brezhnev has lost 8 control in Moscow." A Western expert in Moscow said: "Remember...