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...Brezhnev Doctrine proclaimed in 1968 that the Soviet sphere only expands. The Reagan Doctrine is meant as its antithesis. It declares that the U.S. will work at the periphery to reverse that expansion. How? Like the Nixon Doctrine, it turns to proxies. Unlike the Nixon Doctrine, it supports not the status quo but revolution...
rapid rise through party ranks suggests an adroit politician who has been able to advance under leaders as different in style as Brezhnev and Andropov...
...that he associated with the name of Yuri Andropov. The allusion was revealing. During Andropov's 15-month reign, the former KGB chief launched a campaign against worker absenteeism and nomenklatura corruption. At least one prominent black marketeer, with connections to the family of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was executed. Andropov fired several industrial ministers and began to appoint younger, more professional executives to senior posts. Andropov also set up a task force charged with streamlining the bureaucracy. It is thought to be headed by Central Committee Secretariat Member Nikolai Ryzhkov, a close associate of Gorbachev...
...being aggressive, we ought to be able to solve that one. Beyond that, we can only keep trying." Reagan's first try was to send George Bush to the Chernenko funeral; then he shaped the personal letter to Gorbachev that the Vice President would carry. The responses from Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko to such private entreaties had read like the handiwork of a committee, and not a very skilled committee at that. Reagan rather thinks he will get a personal, and perhaps mildly revealing, answer this time. Prime Minister Thatcher did in correspondence following Gorbachev's visit to Britain...
Meantime, Bush, the professional mourner (six funerals of top foreign leaders), was Reagan's eyes and ears when he gripped Gorbachev's hand in Moscow last Wednesday afternoon. Funerals are robust ground for political intrigue. Bush, the former CIA head, hardly needed coaching. From the Brezhnev and Andropov burials he returned with mental notes on eye contact, humor, intellectual agility, confidence, vitality, tailoring, shirt collars, hair color, complexion and hand size...