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...near future, nothing will change. Soon Brezhnev will go, but the other leaders who will reach his position will not be different. Our system is conservative in all senses and the positions of leaders are conservative...
...What about Brezhnev, will he try to reform anything...
...Brezhnev's leadership is more conservative. Today the policy is strength. Military defense. We don't know how effective we will be in war, but in peacetime--we have the greatest army and navy in the world. It [the military] seems to be the only thing in which we are most effective. Education, medicine, agriculture--we are not effective. Every year they get worse and worse...
...Jimmy Carter and Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski both recognize that Washington's announcement of diplomatic relations with Peking, plus next week's visit by Teng Hsiao-p'ing, provoked the Soviets to stall on a new SALT treaty and a summit meeting between Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. In Washington, the Cabinet-level Policy Review Committee on China has recommended that the President avoid any steps that could be construed as a "tilt" toward China at the expense of the Soviet Union...
...Moscow once, Warnke felt the urgency in Leonid Brezhnev's pleading for peace. Back in his hotel room, Warnke pondered it all while watching the war movies that saturate Soviet television. He decided to take Brezhnev a bit at his word...