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...Carter Administration's National Security Adviser, remembers Chernenko as "a very cautious bureaucrat, very deferential to Brezhnev, not forceful, not dynamic." The fact that Chernenko was "the least competent, the least likely to innovate [of the contenders]," Brzezinski believes, is probably advantageous to the U.S. and perhaps for East-West relations...
...Cambridge, Bard said. "The peace movement [in West Germany] is defeated at this point, but we have to go on and get in contact with the unofficial peace movement in the East. We have very good contacts in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. We must work with them and not the governments to get Europe out of these two blocks, to get out of this East-West confrontation...
Thatcher puts her best foot forward to improve East-West ties...
...their meeting, along with ample supplies of roses, cigarettes and mineral water. He later confessed to Thatcher that he had been concerned that her plane might not be able to land because of Budapest's "London fog." Then the small talk gave way to more serious matters: East-West relations, disarmament, the possibility of increased trade between the two countries, Kadar's experiments with free enterprise within a state socialist economy...
...might reappear as early as next week. He also confirmed rumors that the Soviet leader was suffering from a kidney ailment, aggravated by influenza. In any case, the elder Andropov was not so critically ill that his son Igor, a diplomat who has participated in a number of recent East-West conferences, could not join the Soviet diplomatic team in the Swedish capital...