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Brezhnev still has the will and the energy to do those enervating things that national leaders have to do. He meets foreign visitors?U.S. Senators, Communist delegations, Asian and Arab ministers, bankers and industrialists???almost every day. He participates in uncounted party and government conferences. Perhaps most trying of all, he not only delivers long public speeches and reports, but sits through interminable speeches by others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Brezhnev | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...would never want to conquer by shrapnel, but which it never will conquer by checkbooks and sales talk so long as there is any trace of powder in the air. The pertinacity of a Sandino in Nicaragua (see p. 16) is momentarily embarrassing. The alleged economic offensive of European industrialists???British, German, Belgian?is momentarily disturbing. But both of these developments merely serve to emphasize the business wisdom of the President's trip. Both enhance the opportunity he has created to interpret the U. S. position in what is more and more truly called the Western Hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Cuba | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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