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...LEONID I. BREZHNEV, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union during Lenin's era was a revolutionary beacon for the rest of the world, but all that promise was lost someplace between the Purge Trials and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and nudged Russia backwards until it stands today as the world's Number Two imperialist power. Soviet internal repression is greater than in this country, but it is less imperialist outside its borders, perhaps because it lacks the American capacity for aggrandizement. It was altogether fitting that World Enemy Numbers...
When the President pointed out one morning at the White House a 6-ft. 4-in., 250-lb. Iowa Congressman and said, "That's Bill Scherle, he's agriculture," Brezhnev leaped at Scherle, looking up a full head above himself. How are crop prospects? Brezhnev wanted to know. Yes, he remembered Roswell Garst, who lives in Scherle's district, the man who had brought hybrid seed corn to Russia. They were studying productivity of crops and cattle-building up, Brezhnev told Scherle. When he moved on, Brezhnev left no doubt that during summit No. 4-that would...
...secretary. "If I were in your shoes," said Connally, "I wouldn't stay around here." Before long, Connally's phone stopped ringing; he found that he was not first among equals in the White House but just one adviser among many. At the state dinner for Leonid Brezhnev last week, he told reporters: "You can give advice, but you can't make 'em take it. I'm like the old man who said, 'I can teach it to you, but I can't learn it for you.' " As a Connally friend...
...Dean) Day was at hand. With the best of motives, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called time out in the Watergate hearings for the duration of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev's visit to the U.S. But coming on the very brink of the TV appearance of John W. Dean III, the President's former counsel and now most dangerous accuser, the sudden and unexpected pause in public testimony did little to keep Watergate from crowding Brezhnev for press attention...
...little bit. Why shouldn't I drink a little bit?" Anyone who has received a call from Martha Mitchell knows that she consistently denies having downed a drop of alcohol before getting on the phone. The impersonator said she had attended the state dinner for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev the night before (actually, Martha was at her Manhattan apartment), and expressed genuine fondness for Pat Nixon (who, in point of fact, has infuriated Martha). Strangest of all, the woman offered this defense for John Mitchell's innocence: "My husband is so stupid he hasn't got sense...