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...Starting from the summit meeting in Moscow-the first between Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972-and the communiqué that was issued after it, there was a very critical phrase that caused us great annoyance. It said that both parties agreed on military relaxation in the area. Military relaxation meant that the state of no war-no peace that had prevailed here, and that had caused us all our trouble and our dilemma, would continue. The next year, [at] the Washington summit, it was obvious that the two superpowers had gone a step further. It was quite clear from...
...reminded of a Dutch joke: In the year 2000, a schoolboy was asked who Brezhnev was. After a pause, he answered: "An unimportant Russian statesman in the time of Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...campaign entered the final stretch, Wilson found his touch. At a mass meeting in Birmingham, he took on Heath's "Reds under the bed" campaign theme in classic Wilson style. "In three short weeks," he said, "the Conservatives have achieved what Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Brezhnev never were able to do-make the British Communist Party look important." As for the Pay Board's belated discovery that the miners were not being paid 3% above the average industrial wage but 8% below, Wilson drew cheers with the Churchillian parody that "never in the history of arithmetic...
...rather surprisingly came to Solzhenitsyn's defense was Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the angry Establishment poet who has been notably servile toward the Kremlin in recent years. After learning of Solzhenitsyn's arrest, Yevtushenko sent what he described as "a polite and mild" telegram to Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. In it, he expressed his anxiety about the writer's fate and how it might affect the U.S.S.R.'s prestige...
Plans for the Brezhnev-Nixon summit next spring continued in Washington, and the White House declined to comment on the deportation. Predictably, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson called Nixon's silence "deplorable." He said that "the Administration has posed a false choice between avoiding nuclear war and keeping faith with the traditional value of individual liberty...