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...equal status with the U.S. was its own reward. Its value increased manyfold when the U.S. was willing to enshrine the magic word equality in the communiques issued at summits and the prologues to SALT treaties and accords that Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter signed with Leonid Brezhnev between...
...highly developed some of cunning. A brief look at Arbatov's career only serves to reinforce this impression, for our man clearly knew how to pick--and stick with--the right people. In the early 1960s, for example, Arbatov was a confident of the late Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev. And all the way buck in 1964, he became an advisor to Yuni V. Andropov, then one of several secretaries of the Communist party's Central Committee. Today Andropov is Secretary General of the Central Committee and Arbator director of the prestigious Institute for United States and Canadian Studies...
...missile (or if nuclear weapons can be cut back to a lower, and equal, level), and this is why the Europeans asked us in 1979 to counter the growing threat of the Soviet SS-20 missile. At the time there were only 120 of them a number which Leonid Brezhnev called sufficient for nuclear parity in Europe. Today there are 351 SS-20's west of the Urals, and Yuri Andropov (you remember, the one who took out a contract on the Pope) claims that this is equality, although there have no new Western missiles installed since 1979. Behind this...
...surprise, Gromyko was given the additional responsibilities of a First Deputy Premier. The veteran diplomat, who after 26 years in the post has come to personify Soviet foreign policy abroad, had been mentioned as a possible contender for the office of Soviet President, which is still vacant following Brezhnev's death. Instead, he will now assume a post on the governing Council of Ministers as one of three top deputies to Premier Nikolai Tikhonov...
...week full of confusing signs and portents, the concern about Andropov's health revived doubts about the stability of the Kremlin leadership in the post-Brezhnev era. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The fact that Andropov could come out as a strong successor just a few days after Brezhnev's death gave a lot of people confidence that the leadership was functioning smoothly and that it had everything under control. If Andropov died tomorrow, does anyone think it would go as smoothly...