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...Leonid Brezhnev. By invading Czechoslovakia, he showed that the Russian plan for world domination has not been given up for peaceful coexistence; showed De Gaulle that he needs to study Russian history; demonstrated that the purported will of Peter the Great still defines Russian foreign policy; convinced the world that the need for NATO still exists; woke up the U.S. and made most of its citizens grateful for the election of Nixon...
...some of the epithets hurled at the poet by British intellectuals in the London press. The bill of indictment drawn up against Evtushenko included charges that he publicly denounced Andrei Sinyavsky, Yuli Daniel and other imprisoned writers during his trips abroad. The telegram he was reported to have sent Brezhnev and, Kosygin condemning the Czechoslovak invasion was dismissed by some as "mythical...
...Your article, "NATO: In the Wake of Illusion" [Nov. 22], was interesting. Americans are aghast when the Soviet Union issues the Brezhnev Doctrine. Why? The U.S., in 1823, announced to the world the Monroe Doctrine to support our own intervention, imperialism, and hands-off policy in this hemisphere. The Russians are simply learning from their equally ambitious counterpart how to deal with troublesome neighbors...
...European Communists were furious. The leaders of French and Italian delegations both rose to announce that their parties intended to travel "our road toward socialism," as Italian Giancarlo Pajetta put it. Rumanian Delegate Chivu Stoica also declined to line up behind Gomulka's thesis. Russian Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev plumped for the Kremlin's long-sought Communist summit, which was postponed indefinitely after the invasion. But it was all too clear that European Communists are in no mood to convene in harmony...
...organization," will soon be under direct state control. Sergei Pavlov, ex-head of the Communist Youth League, has been appointed to run a new Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. He has been made a member of the Cabinet. And his orders are blunt. Says Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev: "International standards for our sports must be improved...