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...beginning of the end for détente came in 1974, when Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington championed legislation making freer Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R. a precondition for tariff concessions on Soviet exports...
...link economic rewards with exit visas constituted interference in their internal affairs. This kind of explicit, narrowly defined "linkage" tends always to stiffen Soviet backs. Linkage must be an underlying factor in the calculations on both sides rather than a stark equation by itself, such as the formula that freer emigration would equal freer trade, or that a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan would equal ratification of SALT...
...life in a sense politicizes everything, in fact, the Soviet people are very apolitical. They feel that they cannot influence political decisions in their own country and they assume that people abroad find their governments similarly unresponsive to their political wishes. While they realize that life elsewhere is generally "freer" than in the Soviet Union, they are highly influenced by propaganda which tells them that in the West crime is so rampant that merely being on the street is an invitation to murder. To a Russian the very term "freedom" implies a perjorative loss of control...
...wooden, characterizations blurred. One has a feeling that this project-brought to fruition without the financial support of the film industry, by three young woman producers who love the Olsen work-is faithful to the letter of the book, but heedless of the need to give the story a freer, less cautious life in a new medium. What sympathy one feels for the attempt to solve difficult problems of translation is soon submerged in a tedium that could be dangerous. A couple more minutes of this stuff could lead to Altered States-or anyway, to trying to remember where...
...nine weeks of preliminary talks, the participants had not even been able to agree on an agenda. At issue was the West's insistence on ample time not only for examining Soviet repression and Afghanistan but also other East European limitations on strong Helsinki principles like the "freer movement of peoples." The U.S. proposed the airing of such topics for some six weeks. After that, the conference would take up new proposals on the Soviets' pet topic of disarmament. The Soviets' timetable would have limited discussion of human rights and issues like Afghanistan to a week...