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TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who accompanied Kissinger, reports that the Chinese were storing grain and digging shelters for a possible Soviet attack, as well as establishing settlements of urban youths near the disputed borders. The message for Washington is clear: China needs its. American counterweight to Soviet might...
...West Germany, the father of Ostpolitik, Chancellor Willy Brandt, expressed his "solidarity" with Sakharov and other dissidents "endangered because of their convictions." In ordinarily neutral Austria, Chancellor Bruno Kreisky called for a "democratic counterweight" to protect Russian libertarians like Sakharov. From Russia came a spirited defense of Sakharov by Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has been the target of Soviet vituperation since he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970. Last week he nominated Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for peace...
...agreement should also go a long way toward balancing the relations of the subcontinent nations with their big-power neighbors. New Delhi, which has a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, is anxious to upgrade its diplomatic relations with Peking as a counterweight to Russian influence...
James Brady, who broke the story in his New York magazine gossip column, reported that Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger had been pressured by relatives to acquire some Republican counterweight. As Brady told it, Sulzberger's cousin, Editorial Page Editor John B. Oakes, was angry over the top-level interference (Oakes denied it). The principals would not comment on the report that Safire would be making $55,000 a year-a lot of honey for a cub columnist. Quips Safire: "I'm going from one organization to another, and both are equally leaky...
These two complement each other well enough. Anybody who really cared could get some interesting formal things out of the two books together. You never know how this works out in terms of flesh and blood. But certainly Janice bringing Stavros back to life is some kind of counterweight to the baby's death in the first book. She too had to make a passage--go through something to return--to get back into bed with him. All that's there, I'm not sure that a third book could do it again--it would have to be a different...