Word: hylander
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...Hyland respects Brezhnev more for his political shrewdness than his native intelligence. He recalls how Brezhnev used to tease him during meetings, often pretending to steal Hyland's briefcase, full of top-secret papers. Hyland has listened with fascination as Brezhnev has recounted, without referring to notes, minute details of a negotiation held three years before. Another asset not shared by all Brezhnev's colleagues: "He can be frank without getting acrimonious...
...comparison, says Hyland, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is a "clever tactician with great aplomb" who can change positions in mid-sentence with no explanation...
...Hyland's experience, the most reasonable Soviet to deal with is Ambassador Dobrynin, the affable 16-year Washington veteran who unnerves some Administration officials because he neither takes notes nor relies on an interpreter in even the most delicate and detailed discussions. "You just hope he hasn't missed the nuances, but you're never really certain what he reports," says Hyland...
...Hyland worked for Kissinger for eight years, Zbigniew Brzezinski for only eight months. Not surprisingly, he feels much closer to Kissinger, who was a demanding boss but also became what Hyland considers a "personal friend." Hyland says the two men are surprisingly alike, sharing a basic ideological conservatism and similar global political outlooks. But "Kissinger plowed new ground," says Hyland, while "Brzezinski is working the same soil...
...Hyland is helping Kissinger teach a graduate seminar at Georgetown University and write his much-publicized memoirs. The co-author of a 1968 book about the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, Hyland wants to do another about the Brezhnev era. He also has a plot in mind for a spy novel-about Soviet internal machinations and international intrigue, naturally. He has been researching it most of his adult life...