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...judge from the banners and slogans that garlanded every major Moscow thoroughfare, all 15 members of the Politburo are joined in "monolithic unity" with the people. Reinforcing this impression was the announcement that Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, 69, would deliver the Soviet equivalent of a "state of the union" address. This traditionally lasts from five to six hours-scarcely an undertaking for a man long rumored to be suffering from a fatal physical or political illness. Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 71, whose survival in power is often linked to Brezhnev's, is scheduled to deliver the crucial report...
Behind the facade of socialist pageantry and the rhetoric of fraternal solidarity lies another, incomparably more complex reality. Clearly, the congress marks a time for national stocktaking. New crises, problems and opportunities are at hand for the U.S.S.R. Leonid Brezhnev's decade-long rule is inexorably coming to its natural end, even though Kremlinologists no longer believe he will use the congress podium to announce his retirement. Whatever the state of his health, this is surely the last Party congress over which he will preside as General Secretary. Several others in the gerontocratic Politburo (average age: 66) will also...
Since there exists no formalized mechanism for a transfer of power in the U.S.S.R., a crisis inevitably occurs when a leader dies or is ousted. Many Kremlinologists believe that Brezhnev would prefer an orderly transition and a new regime that will continue his policies. Nonetheless, they predict a possibly lengthy power struggle under cover of a caretaker "collective leadership." If Brezhnev were to retire in the near future, his titular successor would probably be Politburo Member Andrei Kirilenko, 69, an old Brezhnev crony, who has acted for Brezhnev during his recent illnesses. Kiril Mazurov, 61, at present Kosygin...
...talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were intended to wrap up the broad agreement between President Ford and the Russian leader at Vladivostok in November 1974 to limit each side to 2,400 long-range missiles and bombers. Of this number, only 1,320 could carry MIRVs-clusters of independently aimed warheads. Kissinger brought home proposed compromises on most of the unsettled issues, but they satisfied none of his critics. Said Richard Perle, a foreign policy adviser to Scoop Jackson: "He gave everything away...
...Gromyko and Premier Aleksei Kosygin, has argued that the M.P.L.A. will have a hard task subduing UNITA, which has the support of some 2 million Ovimbundu, the country's largest tribe. In Whitehall's view, this group is winning over the faction led by Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev by their argument that Moscow is in danger of being sucked into a potential African Viet Nam that could mean the collapse of detente...