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...incumbent President as an adversary. I had a rough row to hoe from the beginning. I also did not give the Congress any goodies to take home, nothing popular, where a Congressman could go home and say: "You ought to re-elect me because I voted for the Panama Canal Treaty or because I voted to increase oil prices by deregulation...
...reasons he was not re-elected is that he addressed difficult issues; that he did not yield to political expediency; that his basic principles were sound; and that he was effective in some of the major tasks he undertook?energy, arms control, Alaska lands, the Panama Canal, the Middle East, China relations. I hope history will deal kindly with me. But I am at peace with the knowledge I did the best I could...
...your review "Blood Relatives" [Aug. 9] you say that our brother Alexander Pasternak was a member of Stalin's secret police, the Cheka. As an architect who designed one lock of the Moscow-Volga Canal. Alexander was employed by the Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) in 1936. The NKVD not only controlled all construction projects, like the canal and the metro, but had also taken over the functions of the Cheka. Accordingly, the NKVD uniform that Alexander was obliged to wear carried unpleasant associations, associations he detested because he was afraid of one department being confused with another, more...
...Alexander Pasternak passage referred to was cited only to point out that Boris Pasternak 's literary imagination may well have been stimulated by the sight of his brother, in an NKVD uniform, working on a canal built by slave labor during the Great Terror...
...being concerned about a partial solution," that is, of getting the occupied Sinai back from Israel. "We do not want the same accusations to be leveled against us again." In the end, the Egyptians agreed merely to provide medical care for some of the Palestinian wounded and to pay canal tolls for the five ships scheduled to carry P.L.O. guerrillas to the Sudan and the Yemens...