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...25th Communist Party Congress. On both sides, the whole structure and direction of the still experimental Soviet-American accommodation known as détente are becoming part of the domestic political debate. Under fire from some quarters for being too conciliatory, President Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev are showing greater toughness in the East-West exchange. As one Western intelligence official describes it, "Brezhnev is moving toward Mikhail Suslov [a veteran hard-liner on the Politburo], and Ford is moving toward Ronald Reagan...
...before worshipful masses in Seoul; Kennedy firm-jawed at the Berlin Wall; L.B.J. staring down Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro; Nixon clinking glasses in the Great Hall with Chou Enlai, then eating Wheaties in the Kremlin; Ford grinning beneath his fur hat in the snows of Vladivostok with Leonid Brezhnev. Worthy acts. But the world changes...
...circumstances, Premier Aleksei Kosygin's failure to appear at the opening of the Supreme Soviet session, and Brezhnev's midweek absence at a meeting, raised the eyebrows of some Western Kremlinologists. Although the latest grain disaster was a result of ferocious weather conditions, the two ailing leaders might make handy scapegoats for alleged errors in agricultural planning. Both men later reappeared in public; Sovietologists in Washington predict that Brezhnev will remain firmly in power until well after the Communist Party Congress meets next February. Indeed, Brezhnev reportedly delivered a secret speech to the Supreme Soviet attacking people...
...visions of stethoscopes. The tumbrils of '69 proved to have no permanent legacy, except perhaps by introducing Marx on a large scale into the social science curriculum. That neutralized the old specter alright. Henry Kissinger has already been summoned to Moscow to take over the reins for ailing Leonid Brezhnev...
...summit was originally conceived as a follow-up to last summer's East-West European Security Conference in Helsinki and a kind of grand finale to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's decade of leadership. The Russians wanted a document they could present to their 25th Soviet Party Congress, scheduled for February, that would stress the disruptiveness of China's role in the Communist world and laud that of Moscow. Now there seems little chance that the Communist summit can be held before the Soviet Party Congress...