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Soviets of all nationalities seem more offended by Washington's increasing cooperation with China than by the Olympic boycott, the grain embargo, or any of the other post-Afghanistan anti-Soviet policies of the Carter Administration...
...tente means the relaxation of tensions between nations. By that definition, the détente era in Soviet-American relations is over. Since Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan in December, Washington's policy toward Moscow has been almost exclusively punitive: a boycott of the Olympics, a partial embargo on grain sales, tightened restrictions on high-technology exports. The SALT II treaty that Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed a year ago this week may die on the Senate shelf. After more than a month in office, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has yet to meet with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Muskie...
...Hill wants the viewer to read his frames, not his dialogue; lighting, angles and cut ting carry the weight of meaning. Perhaps he sends too many people to meet their maker in balletic slow-motion. But that is only a small reservation. Hill is very much in the American grain, the inheritor of the Ford-Hawks-Walsh tradition of artful, understated action film making. - Richard Schickel
...line in front of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning to sign up for job interviews this February. Like many other seniors, she spoke with all sorts of corporations. Like many others, she received a handful of alluring offers, from a few national banks, from a grain-trading company, and from a steel company. And for a while, she was prepared to take the corporate plunge...
There are other problems. The fighting has left the country almost totally dependent on Kremlin aid and grain shipments. Desertions have cut the Afghan army from 80,000 before the revolution to 25,000. Up to 1 million civilian refugees have fled to Pakistan and Iran...