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THERE HAVE been 11 summits since September 1959, when President Eisenhower and Nikita S. Khrushchev held a Camp David chat. Since, a few summits have centered on the signing of pre-arranged agreements, which conveniently leave summiteers nothing to discuss. In 1972, for instance, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the ABM treaty and in 1979 Carter and Brezhnev agreed to SALT II. Other summits, in 1959, 1967 and 1985, have not centered on anything...
...year-old prison open for one inmate was also extremely costly: West Berlin and the Bonn government spent some $1 million annually in salaries and expenses to maintain a staff of 35 wardens, cooks and maintenance men. But the Soviets were adamant, insisting that, as their late leader Leonid Brezhnev put it, "to release Rudolf Hess would be an insult to the Soviet people...
...eleven draft decrees along those lines, but chose not to put them to a vote at the plenum. Some Western analysts took this as a sign that he had yet to overcome resistance from conservatives among the Central Committee's 307 members, 60% of whom are holdovers from the Brezhnev era. Gorbachev is widely expected to seek a purge of such foot draggers at a national party conference that he has scheduled for June 1988. Nonetheless, the plenum left little doubt about his political strength, which was underscored by the naming of three of his supporters to the ruling Politburo...
...when the phrase "peaceful coexistence" gained currency. Both sides professed their realization that they had a stake in preventing war. The quest for nuclear parity began with the limited test-ban treaty negotiated under Khrushchev, which led to the era of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and detente under Brezhnev. But Khrushchev's thaw turned out to be more rhetoric than reality. He crushed the Hungarian rebellion, built the Berlin Wall, deployed Soviet missiles in Cuba, directed Moscow's missile buildup and pushed a strategy of fostering pro-Soviet revolutions in the Third World...
...there, then, any reason to believe that Gorbachev's talk of "mutual security" is more credible? In theory at least, there is one significant difference. The Khrushchev-Brezhnev doctrine proclaimed that the armed truce between the superpowers did not mean the end of the global "war" between Communism and capitalism. As Khrushchev said in 1963, "Peaceful coexistence not only does not exclude the class struggle, but is itself a form of the class struggle between victorious socialism and decrepit capitalism." Khrushchev also put this point in more typically blunt terms: "We will bury you." The "wars of national liberation" that...