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...troubled by misinformation in an otherwise amusing article: "Keeping a Watch on Brezhnev...
Eterna is a Swiss watch manufacturer with an established reputation largely due to the excellence of its "Eternamatic" movement. I suspect this is the wristwatch that Mr. Brezhnev owned. But chrome-plated? We would never resort to such plating, as our customers are entitled to better...
...reduction of world tensions. Although taking a hopeful view of the long-term trend of U.S.-Soviet relations, Henry Kissinger has recently warned Americans against expecting too much of détente, which Kremlin hard-liners have long described as a mere tactic. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev strongly reinforced that view -and then some. Détente, he argued, is not an end in itself but a means of achieving Russia's strategic objectives...
...make no secret of the fact that we see détente as the way to create more favorable conditions for peaceful socialist and Communist construction," Brezhnev told the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at its opening session in Moscow. "Détente and peaceful coexistence refer to interstate relations. This means mainly that disputes and conflicts between countries are not to be settled by the use or threat of force. Détente does not in the slightest abolish, and cannot abolish or alter, the laws of the class struggle . . . There is no room...
...been joined by the 275,000-member French party in rejecting the Marxist model for Communism in their countries and in proclaiming (convincingly or not) their adherence to Western democratic principles. So troubled are relations of the foreign parties with Moscow on these and other issues that Brezhnev failed to convene a meeting of the European parties late last year...