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...Administration also got an unexpected assist from, of all people, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who gave a speech at Tiflis, in Stalin's Georgia homeland, recommending that the Soviets and the NATO powers start talking about mutual troop reductions in central Europe. Brezhnev challenged the U.S. to get serious about the subject. He asked rhetorically: "Don't these curious people resemble a person who tries to judge the flavor of a wine without imbibing...
...Brezhnev's intervention further complicated an already intricate debate (see box, following page). Seizing the opportunity, Administration spokesmen spread the plausible message that it would be ridiculous to withdraw U.S. forces when there was a chance to use them to strike a bargain with Russia...
...Peking back to reality was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the fear that the Brezhnev Doctrine - that the Soviet Union has the right to intervene in any socialist state deviating from its brand of Communism - might be applied to China. War hysteria swept the country after border fighting broke out with the Soviets at the Ussuri River and in Sinkiang...
Packed Politburo. In essence, the 24th Congress endorsed the leadership's present policies, which represented primarily a triumph of the status quo, or of "monolithic unity," as Pravda put it. It empowered Brezhnev to "cleanse" the party by expelling members, a device that would enable him to favor his backers. All present Politburo members retained their seats, but their order of seniority was changed, except for Brezhnev and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, who remained No. 4. Dmitry Poliansky (TIME cover, March 29) rose from ninth to eighth position behind Kirill Mazurov, who advanced one step to No. 7. Gennady...
...elected to an enlarged Politburo were Viktor Grishin, 57, Moscow party chief; Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 59, Kazakhstan party chief; Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 53, chairman of the council of ministers of the Ukraine, and Fedor Kulakov, 53, a party secretary and specialist in agriculture. All are Brezhnev protégés. By packing the Politburo, just as Stalin did in 1952, Brezhnev henceforth will be able to dominate it more easily. The collective leadership, which last year had begun to show signs of strain, appeared to be yielding ground to Brezhnev's drive toward undisputed preeminence...