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However, after President Nixon's summit meeting with Brezhnev in 1972, the U.S. press latched onto detente and soon both Kissinger and Nixon were using the word as shorthand to sum up U.S.-Soviet relations. Now, in face of critics like Ronald Reagan, who charge that detente means unilateral concessions to the Russians, Ford has adopted the clumsy phrase "peace through strength...
Kremlinologists in the West have long speculated that Soviet Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev would sing his swan song at this year's 25th Party Congress. Some swan song...
When the Congress concluded its eleven-day session in Moscow last week, Brezhnev, 69, appeared to be more secure than ever in his power. He was reappointed to the all-powerful Politburo and re-elected party General Secretary. While the collective leadership is certainly not dead, Brezhnev is indisputably primus inter pares. He gave a five-hour keynote speech, belying speculation that he is incapacitated by ill-health. Throughout the Congress, he received tributes surpassing anything that has been said about a Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Uzbekistan Party Secretary Sharaf R. Rashidov, for example, rhapsodized over his leader...
...contrast, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 71, seems to have slipped, although he too kept his Politburo seat. His address on the economy ran only two hours, and, as he spoke, Brezhnev's chair on the dais was conspicuously-and un-precedentedly-vacant. That could indicate that Brezhnev intended to rebuff Kosygin, or that he was bored with the proceedings, since he and the rest of the Politburo had already read and approved the Premier's remarks. What may be more revealing than Brezhnev's absence, suggested U.S. analysts, is that Kosygin limited himself to economic matters. Noted...
...self-styled international code decipherers. Kremlinology, the effort to analyze the internal power structure of the Soviet Union by use of various symbols, such as who was standing next to whom in what photograph, who received a favorable review in this or that Soviet academic journal, or who accompanied Brezhnev on his Eastern European tour, is not by any means an exact science. But it is a legitimate science, in that the American media recognizes such speculation as worthwhile, and newspapers and the networks allow commentators to ramble on at great length about, what signs they are reading from Moscow...