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Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev called for an intelligence estimate of external influences on Egypt's decision. "Relations between Cairo and Washington are bad," he was told...
...right to leave the Soviet Union, one celebrated Russian Jew was heard last week pleading for the right to return. He was Poet Joseph Brodsky, who was expelled from the U.S.S.R. last month (TIME, June 19), and is presently in Ann Arbor, Mich. In a letter to Leonid Brezhnev that was leaked by the Soviet secret police last week, Brodsky begged the party chief "for an opportunity to continue to exist in Russian literature and on Russian soil...
...mixed -and often heated. Some intellectuals felt that Brodsky's letter strikingly underlined the contrast between the harshness of official policy and the moderate, reasoning attitude of some Soviet writers. But many were angry. Said one dissident: "One simply doesn't write such letters to people like Brezhnev." Others contended that "the tone of supplication" in Brodsky's appeal was "entirely inappropriate" in view of the rigorous Soviet campaign against Jews who have applied to leave for Israel. Stung by such criticism, Brodsky replied: "I am not begging Brezhnev for anything. My letter was simply...
...they would not guarantee Sadat's continued presidency unless they received it. Whatever the bill of complaints, Sadat decided that he had to act. He dispatched Premier Aziz Sidky to Moscow for what some Cairo officials called "a final friendly ultimatum." By one account, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, returning from a vacation to meet Sidky, once more refused offensive weapons. Brezhnev reportedly dared the Egyptians to go ahead and toss out his advisers...
...investors must have thought that the figure came from Brezhnev himself. In three days of frenzied trading, Occidental's stock shot up from 11⅞ to 18¼. Then the puff turned into poof. Arriving in Moscow for major trade talks, Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson said of the Occidental agreement: "It is premature to call it a commercial deal." Occidental's stock promptly dropped to 15½ and closed the week at 15¼. Even so, President Nixon, who favors joint ventures between U.S. and Soviet enterprises, summoned Hammer upon his return for a private 45-minute...