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...with key aides and figures in all corners of German life. Gate saw to it that TIME had a correspondent at the treaty signing in Moscow. Gisela Bolte flew with Brandt to the Soviet capital, where she reported every development from Brandt's conversation with Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev to the state dinner hosted by Premier Aleksei Kosygin...
...will cause the West to succumb to a false sense of security that could again end in disillusionment. The accord might also tempt the Eastern Europeans to move too far and too fast in seeking accommodation with the West. If that happens, Soviet leaders may decide to reassert the Brezhnev Doctrine-just as they did in Czechoslovakia two years ago. Because of the dismal failure of Soviet-style Communism to develop healthy roots in Eastern Europe, Communism may face greater risks than the West by the creation of a more relaxed atmosphere...
...elapse between congresses of the Communist Party. The 23rd Party Congress was held in March 1966, but nobody was surprised that the 24th did not meet on time, for last March the whole country was getting ready for the numbing celebrations of Lenin's centennial. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev kept assuring people that the congress would be convened this year. Last week, however, Brezhnev summoned the Central Committee for its second plenary session in a fortnight to announce that the 24th Party Congress would not meet until March 1971, a full year behind schedule...
There was nothing unprecedented about the delay. Joseph Stalin once let 13 turbulent years go by between congresses. Nonetheless, the fact that Brezhnev had announced only eleven days earlier that the congress would meet this year provoked a flurry of speculation. Kremlinologists in Moscow and other capitals, the more realistic of whom rate themselves and their confreres on their varying degrees of ignorance, produced several hypotheses...
...leadership is still wrestling with an even more fundamental economic problem. Should economic stagnation be attacked by reapplying the all but forgotten liberal "Liberman reforms" introduced by Premier Aleksei Kosygin in 1965 and soon quietly abandoned by the conservative Brezhnev? Those reforms called for decentralization, increased authority for factory and regional managers, and careful use of market mechanisms. Or should the Kremlin move in the opposite direction by imposing even stricter discipline and central control...