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...Western newsmen bused in for the occasion, gathered to witness the latest episode in the propaganda blitz that Moscow is waging against the Western nations' plan to strengthen their nuclear forces in Europe. With fanfare, the Soviets began carrying out an unexpected pledge made by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in October to withdraw some forces from East Germany...
...angular, thin-lipped economic planner from the southern Ukraine, Tikhonov is considered by Kremlinologists to be a loyal follower of President Leonid Brezhnev, 72, and a probable successor to ailing Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 75. Rumored to have suffered a heart attack, Kosygin has not been seen in public since mid-October, and Tikhonov has been carrying out his official duties...
...voting alternate members of the Politburo was taken by a relatively young unknown, Mikhail Gorbachev, 48, who for the past year has been the Central Committee's secretary in charge of agriculture. Gorbachev, apparently, was not blamed for a disastrous 1979 grain harvest. Largely because of bad weather, Brezhnev announced, this year's crop amounted to only 179 million tons-47 million tons short of the target, and the worst harvest since 1975. The U.S.S.R. has already contracted to buy 25 million tons of American wheat and corn and will probably purchase at least 7 million tons from...
When uneven football games get out of hand, sacking the quarterback becomes an exercise that any number can play. That's the way it has been for Jimmy Carter since early in this political season. If Brezhnev, Castro, Schmidt, Begin and Lopez Portillo could do it, who's to stop William Safire...
Moscow's propaganda efforts were aimed principally at Britain and West Germany, the two keystone countries of the NATO scheme. After Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly supported the missile proposal, and skeptically belittled Brezhnev's promise to withdraw what she called "a few tanks and troops," Pravda promptly labeled her a "bellicose lady" and scoffed that "she tried on Winston Churchill's trousers but they don't fit." Bonn, meanwhile, was put on notice that its whole Ostpolitik of seeking peaceful relations with the East would be in jeopardy. Calling the missile issue "literally a touchstone...